Cobnut ‘Purple Filbert’

‘Purple Filbert’ is a large, self-fertile, deciduous shrub with broad, serrated, deep purple leaves that can grow into a small, multi-stemmed tree. A purple-leaved relative of our native Hazel with much larger nuts, pendulous pale yellow catkins on leafless twigs emerge in late winter before the leaves, which are followed by edible nuts concealed by a reddish brown husk. Ideal for full sun or partial shade in a sheltered location, it can be grown as a specimen tree, for screening or hedging where its attractive branches are popular in floristry.