The hazel is wind-pollinated -- any movement of the catkins releases some pollen on to the wind and this is carried to the female flowers nearby, on the same tree or on trees close by. Often the ...

in many parts of the country the hazel catkins are already out and easy to spot. Hazel trees are monoecious, which means they have both male and female flowers on the same plant. The male flowers ...

Catkins are a dense spike of unisexual flowers, most often found on wind-pollinated trees or shrubs. Willows, birches and oaks have them and so do hazelnut trees. Part of the reason that we ...

Using a long exposure to capture the drifts of pollen and a reflector to highlight the catkins, Valter took many shots of this hazel tree before the wind finally delivered his desired composition.

These golden catkins of a hazelnut tree have been blooming since late January. They are one of the earliest of the flowering trees. (Pat Munts / The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo The daffodils ...

Hazel has evolved this strategy of early flowering because it is a plant of woodland and gets away to a good start before taller trees put out their leaves. The catkins are like little tassels and ...

They are either shrubby or form small trees, but C. colurna is the only commonly grown hazel to form a trunk. Hazels are wind-pollinated. The male catkins are slender and long and full of pollen.

We weren't that surprised When Paddy Brassil pointed it out to us For he had a weather eye for such things A hazel ... our tree, as if it were his own In early spring, he heralded its new catkins ...