The catkins are the male flowers and hang below the branches ready to disperse their pollen on the wind to fertilize the female flowers.
The female flowers are much smaller and far more difficult to see. Looking like tiny strands of red wool attached to the branches of the tree, above the hanging male flowers, they benefit from closer examination. From these small, red bunches of threads, will eventually spring forth the Hazel nuts at the end of Summer - still a few months away yet!
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Thx so much. That's so much more than I learned in first-year Bio!
Thx so much. That's so much more than I learned in first-year Bio!
Thx so much. That's so much more than I learned in first-year Bio!
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