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Strange nuts!!!!!

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    #2
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    They are hazel nuts... that's the way they are attached to the hazel bush... tasty things. I like to roast them.


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    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    Odd looking I admit. I've often walked through hazel woods at this time of year and never saw that growth around the nut itself. Granted the squirrels usually get the ones up top and I'm left with the ones on the ground, so that may explain it.


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    gonker
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    Yeah weird alright.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,466 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    The nuts certainly look like hazelnuts, but the surrounding husk doesn't usually look as large as that. Maybe the tree was diseased in some way, maybe with some kind of parasite, that caused it to look like that.

    Here's a picture of a 'normal' hazelnut.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Corylus_avellana.jpg


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