Editing Hazelnut (section)

=== Cultivars ===
The many [[cultivar]]s of the hazel include 'Atababa', 'Barcelona', 'Butler', 'Casina', 'Clark', 'Cosford', 'Daviana', 'Delle Langhe', 'England', 'Ennis', 'Halls Giant', 'Jemtegaard', 'Kent Cob', 'Lewis', 'Tokolyi', 'Tonda Gentile', 'Tonda di Giffoni', 'Tonda Romana', 'Wanliss Pride', and 'Willamette'.<ref name="rhs">Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-47494-5}}.</ref> Some of these are grown for specific qualities of the nut, including large nut size or early or late fruiting, whereas others are grown as pollinators. The majority of commercial hazelnuts are propagated from root sprouts.<ref name="rhs" /> Some cultivars are of [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] origin between [[common hazel]] and [[Filbert (Corylus maxima)|filbert]].<ref name="fnwe">Flora of NW Europe: [http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=1775 ''Corylus avellana''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502230152/http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=1775|date=2008-05-02}}</ref>

In Ireland and the United Kingdom, hazelnuts are sometimes referred to as cobnuts, for which a specific cultivated variety &ndash; Kentish cobnuts &ndash; is the main variety cultivated in fields known as plats, hand-picked, and eaten green.<ref name="kent">{{cite web |date=2019 |title=Kent cobnuts |url=https://roughwayfarm.co.uk/shop/kent-cobnuts-frequently-asked-questions/ |access-date=4 February 2019 |publisher=Roughway Farm}}</ref> According to the BBC, a national collection of cobnut varieties exists at Roughway Farm, near [[Plaxtol]] in Kent.<ref>{{cite web |date=15 July 2018 |title=BBC: On your farm - The Kentish cobnut |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9v97g |access-date=4 February 2019 |publisher=BBC}}</ref> They are called cobnuts because cob was a word used to refer to the head or "noggin,” and children had a game in which they would tie a string to a hazelnut and use it to try to hit an opponent on the head.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is a Cobnut |url=https://kentishcobnutsassociation.org.uk/the-cobnut/ |access-date=2021-11-12 |website=kentishcobnutsassociation}}</ref>