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OverviewAI-generated
Corylus maxima is a species of plant in the family Betulaceae, belonging to the genus Corylus. It is classified within the class Magnoliopsida, order Fagales, and phylum Tracheophyta. Common names for this species include filbert, giant filbert, Lambertshasel, and Collen farfog. The plant produces nuts and is considered a useful plant.
Native to the NW. Balkan Pen., Corylus maxima has been introduced to Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Krym, and Transcaucasus. Its IUCN conservation status is listed as Data Deficient, a designation recorded in 2018. The species has 2,527 recorded occurrences and 115 records in iDigBio, with media available from institutions such as NCSC, USU, LSU, CM, and CHRB.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, IUCN Red List, Plants of the World, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Data DeficientSPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFagales
- FamilyBetulaceae
Common Name: filbert
via GBIF · IUCN · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 115
- With media
- 81
- Family
- Betulaceae
- Collections
- NCSC, USU, LSU, CM, CHRB, MARY
- Recorded in
- United States, Greece, Poland, Hungary, China, Netherlands, N/A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- useful plant
- Parent taxon
- Corylus
- Image
- Hasel fg01.jpg
- Has use
- nut
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Corylus maxima
- Commons category
- Corylus maxima
- Commons gallery
- Corylus maxima
- taxon common name
- velika leska
- IUCN conservation status
- Data Deficient
- has fruit type
- nut
- short name
- C. maxima
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Encyclopedic overview
Corylus maxima, the filbert, is a species of hazel in the birch family. It is native to Eurasia and produces an edible nut.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corylus maxima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.