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Cobnuts

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NannyMags Thu 06-Oct-22 12:42:51

Can anyone please explain the difference, if any between a cobnut and a hazelnut. We have been picking up cobnuts dropping from our neighbours tree and also enjoying watching the squirrels foraging for them. Recently a gentleman stopped to chat as we were in the garden and he called them hazelnuts. Now the two are very different in my mind. Cobnuts collected from the hedgerows as children, peeled and stamped on to get to the nut and hazelnuts the small round nuts in hard shells in the nuts we cracked at Christmas. Can anyone please

Ro60 Thu 06-Oct-22 13:06:40

www.thespruceeats.com/what-are-cobnuts-435410
Still learning? So if cultivated they're cobnuts, wild ones are hazelnuts - so you were right ?

toscalily Thu 06-Oct-22 14:27:32

Then to add to the confusion there are Filberts: www.rhs.org.uk/nuts/cobnuts-filberts
essentially the same thing.

Chocolatelovinggran Thu 06-Oct-22 14:48:27

If you're in Kent, they're cobnuts....

Callistemon21 Thu 06-Oct-22 15:15:06

I thought it was just a regional difference in names.

I've just been watching our resident squirrel collecting nuts from the hazel tree. He buries them all over the garden, we're always pulling up tiny trees.

toscalily Thu 06-Oct-22 15:59:18

I have found cobnuts in the garden, obviously dropped by a squirrel as we don't have a tree and neither does either of my neighbours so the little blighter is probably burying them here and there. We have a big oak tree at the bottom of the garden and I am always finding buried acorns in the pots when changing the soil as well as little oak trees sprouting everywhere.

Yammy Thu 06-Oct-22 16:04:30

In cumbria the wild ones are wood nuts the ones at Christmas are hazelnuts.
Talking of animals hiding things in my previous we had a very cold winter and thought the Rosemary I had in a pot was doing well, it was only when everything melted and there was an awful smell we realised a fox had put a pheasant tail side up and buried it.

MiniMoon Thu 06-Oct-22 16:04:57

As far as I know, hazelnuts and cobnuts are the same thing. The difference in names is because cobnuts are the cultivated form of hazelnuts.