{"id":1718,"date":"2011-03-12T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2011-03-12T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T16:56:34","slug":"female-hazel-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2011\/03\/female-hazel-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Hazel Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are all familiar with the male catkins of the Hazel but be on the lookout for the less obvious bright pink female flower.<\/p>\n

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Female Common Hazel Flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Catkins are the long pendant like clusters of yellow\/green flowers which hang like earrings from the bare branches of the Common Hazel (Coylus Avellana).<\/p>\n

The female flowers of the Hazel are much harder to see, being enclosed in a tiny brown bud with only their bright megenta styles protruding, making them look more like sea urchins than flowers.<\/p>\n

In early spring, clouds of yellow pollen can be seen floating from the catkins.<\/p>\n

This short video from the BBC Natural History Unit captures the moment that pollen is released from the male catkins onto the female flowers.<\/p>\n

\"ARKive<\/a><\/p>\n

Also of interest<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coryuls Avellana<\/a> – <\/strong>Find out more about the Common Hazel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The female, magenta coloured, sea urchin like flowers of the Hazel are much harder to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[440,124],"tags":[2962,168,95,2984,372,2964,2986,2959,2803,2971,2969,2961,1403,2972,1217,2978,2980,2975,2979,2987,2968,2960,2967,2362,1235,2970,2963,2977,2965,2973,2988,2982,1703,2983,968,2976,2981,2985,2966,2974],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-plants","tag-arkive","tag-autumn","tag-bbc","tag-bud","tag-catkins","tag-clouds","tag-clusters","tag-corylus-avellana","tag-early-spring","tag-earrings","tag-female-flower","tag-female-flowers","tag-flower","tag-green-flowers","tag-hazel-nuts","tag-hazel-trees","tag-hazel-wood","tag-hazelnut","tag-human-diet","tag-lookout","tag-male-catkins","tag-male-flower","tag-mature","tag-natural-history","tag-natural-history-unit","tag-pendants","tag-pollen","tag-protein","tag-red-flowers","tag-sea-urchin","tag-sea-urchins","tag-shrubs","tag-stems","tag-tiny-brown","tag-trees","tag-unsaturated-fat","tag-wattle-and-daub","tag-withe","tag-www-video","tag-yellow-pollen","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Female_hazel_flower-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Female_hazel_flower.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}