"as one of the main brushes. The filbert paintbrush derives from the shape it resembles, that of a hazelnut with its namesake. This word comes from the Old French filbert, coming from noix de (nut of) Philibert. Philibert was a saint, (who died in 684), whereby the ripening of the nut in August coincides with his feast day. Filbert paintbrush The Filbert paintbrush is a paintbrush used in artwork. It has a thick ferrule and hairs that are, on average, medium to long hairs in the shape of an oval. Filberts are particularly effective in blending work, usually of a"
"""Corylus maxima"" 'Purpurea' is a popular ornamental shrub in gardens. In Oregon, ""filbert"" is used for commercial hazelnuts in general. Use in this manner has faded partly due to the efforts of Oregon's hazelnut growers to brand their product to better appeal to global markets and avoid confusion. The etymology for 'filbert' is Norman French. Saint Philibert's feast day is 20 August (old style) and the plant was possibly renamed after him because the nuts were mature on this day. Corylus maxima Corylus maxima, the filbert, is a species of hazel native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from the"
"its nuts, followed in importance by the filbert. Nuts are also harvested from the other species, but apart from the filbert, none is of significant commercial importance. A number of cultivars of the common hazel and filbert are grown as ornamental plants in gardens, including forms with contorted stems (""C. avellana"" 'Contorta', popularly known as ""Harry Lauder's walking stick"" from its gnarled appearance); with weeping branches (""C. avellana"" 'Pendula'); and with purple leaves (""C. maxima"" 'Purpurea'). Hazel is a traditional material used for making wattle, withy fencing, baskets, and the frames of coracle boats. The tree can be coppiced, and"
"the closely related filbert (""Corylus maxima"") by the short involucre; in the filbert the nut is fully enclosed by a beak-like involucre longer than the nut. The scientific name ""avellana"" derives from the town of Avella in Italy, and was selected by Linnaeus from Leonhart Fuchs's ""De historia stirpium commentarii insignes"" (1542), where the species was described as """"Avellana nux sylvestris"""" (""wild nut of Avella""). That name was taken in turn from Pliny the Elder's first century A.D. encyclopedia Naturalis Historia. The leaves provide food for many animals, including Lepidoptera such as the case-bearer moth, ""Coleophora anatipennella"". Caterpillars of the"
"Conopodium majus Conopodium majus is a small perennial herb, whose underground part resembles a chestnut and is sometimes eaten as a wild or cultivated root vegetable. The plant has many English names (many of them shared with ""Bunium bulbocastanum"", a related plant with similar appearance and uses) variously including kippernut, cipernut, arnut, jarnut, hawknut, earth chestnut, groundnut, and earthnut. From its popularity with pigs come the names pignut, hognut, and more indirectly Saint Anthony's nut, for Anthony the Great or Anthony of Padua, both patron saints of swineherds. (See groundnut, earthnut, and hognut for other plants which share these names.)"
"called white chestnut or red chestnut. In Britain, they are sometimes called conker trees because of their link with the game of conkers, played with the seeds, also called conkers. ""Aesculus"" species have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds; opposite, palmately divided leaves, often very large—to across in the Japanese horse chestnut ""Ae. turbinata"". Species are deciduous or evergreen. Flowers are showy, insect- or bird-pollinated, with four or five petals fused into a lobed corolla tube, arranged in a panicle inflorescence. Flowering starts after 80–110 growing degree days. The fruit matures to a capsule, commonly known as a catjacket,"
"common hazel is a shrub common in many European woodlands. It is an important component of the hedgerows that were the traditional field boundaries in lowland England. The wood was traditionally grown as coppice, the poles cut being used for wattle-and-daub building and agricultural fencing. A selection with twisted branches has been propagated horticulturally as ""Corylus avellana"" 'Contorta'. The hazelnut, also known as the cobnut, is the nut of the hazel. It is roughly spherical to oval in shape, about 15–25 mm long and 10–15 mm in diameter, with an outer fibrous husk surrounding a smooth shell. The nut falls"
"Carya glabra Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada. Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory. The pear-shaped nut ripens in September and October and is an important part of the diet of many wild animals. The wood is used for a variety of products, including fuel for home heating. The range of pignut hickory covers nearly all of the eastern United States (11). The species grows in central Florida and"
"Corylus maxima Corylus maxima, the filbert, is a species of hazel native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from the Balkans to Ordu in Turkey. It is a deciduous shrub tall, with stems up to thick. The leaves are rounded, long by broad, with a coarsely double-serrated margin. The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins produced in late winter; the male (pollen) catkins are pale yellow, long, while the female catkins are bright red and only long. The fruit is a nut produced in clusters of 1–5 together; each nut is long, fully enclosed in a long, tubular involucre (husk). The filbert"
"hemispherical or truncate globular in shape, in size. Gumnuts similar to the related stringybark group, however with longer stems. There are four valves inside the gumnut. The disc is either flat, ascending or descending. Regeneration from seed is easily accomplished. Blackbutt can be confused with Sydney peppermint (""Eucalyptus piperita"") or Sydney blue gum (""E. saligna""), but can be distinguished by the strong V-shape of the branch forks, which are preferred resting places for koalas. Found in wet sclerophyll or grassy coastal forests. North from Eden on the far south coast of New South Wales up to south eastern Queensland. The"
"or . Dwarf bilberry, or sierra bilberry (""Vaccinium caespitosum""), is a tufted, low growing woody plant that make a red and gold carpet around alpine lakes in the fall. The western Labrador teas (""Rhododendron columbianum"" and ""R. neoglandulosum""), are not for tea, but are a poisonous, rigidly branched evergreen shrubs with fragrant white flowers, growing in moist places up to . Mountain goosberry (""Ribes montigenum""), in the gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae), can be found as high as . Cliffbush (""Jamesia americana"") is in the mock-orange family (Hydrangeaceae), and can be found to . White globe gilia, or ballhead gilia> (""Ipomopsis congesta"
"by James Edward Smith, the species name of ' refers to the Latin ' (small pill or rounded knob), referring to the shape of the gumnuts. The common name ""blackbutt"" refers to the black base of the tree after fires. The type specimen was collected from Sydney in the year 1794. First published in 1797 in Transactions of the Linnean Society by James Edward Smith. Within the genus ""Eucalyptus"", it lies in the subgenus ""Eucalyptus"" and the section ""Pseudophloius"", a group united by rough but not stringy bark, large opposite juvenile and glossy green adult leaves. Their leaves have adensely"
"Aleurites moluccanus Aleurites moluccanus (or ""moluccana""), the candlenut, is a flowering tree in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, also known as candleberry, Indian walnut, kemiri, varnish tree, nuez de la India, buah keras, or kukui nut tree, and Kekuna tree. Its native range is impossible to establish precisely because of early spread by humans, and the tree is now distributed throughout the New and Old World tropics. It grows to a height of , with wide spreading or pendulous branches. The leaves are pale green, simple, and ovate, or trilobed or rarely five-lobed, with an acute apex, long. The nut is"
"such as hybrid hazelnuts and woody biomass. The goal of this project is to accelerate commercial development of the hybrid hazelnut as a profitable, environmentally friendly food and bioenergy crop for producers in Nebraska and the central United States. Commercially available hazelnuts, or filberts, are currently produced only in Oregon from the European hazelnut. This plant is not productive elsewhere in the U.S. due to disease susceptibility and lack of cold hardiness. After nearly a century of breeding, cold-hardy, disease-resistant hybrids that produce commercial quantities of high-quality nuts in Nebraska are now available. A consortium of the Nebraska Forest Service"
"pipe for stage actors portraying Holmes, because they could balance this pipe better than other styles while delivering their lines. See, Smoking pipe (tobacco)#Calabash. Calabash A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, ""Lagenaria siceraria"", also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh. Calabash fruits have a variety of"
"addition, researchers have demonstrated the potential for the soapnut to be used as a natural surfactant for washing arsenic from soils that are rich in iron. Sapindus mukorossi Sapindus mukorossi is a species of tree in the Sapindaceae family. The fruit is commonly known as Indian Soapberry or washnut, and like other species in the genus ""Sapindus"", it is called soapberry. It is also a native of Western coastal Maharashtra – Konkan, and Goa in India. ""Sapindus mukorrossi"", known as the ritha or reetha tree in India and Nepal, is a deciduous tree that is grown in the lower foothills"
"Eucalyptus campanulata Eucalyptus campanulata, known as the New England blackbutt, or gum-topped peppermint is a tree native to eastern Australia. Previously known as Eucalyptus andrewsii subsp. campanulata, it differs from Eucalyptus andrewsii because of the fruit shape. Gumnuts being bell shaped (campanulate), pear shaped or obconical. It ranges north from Mount Royal in the Barrington Tops north along the Great Dividing Range, to Queensland. Often growing at high altitude in wet areas, on fertile soils. A medium to large tree, up to 45 metres tall. Veteran trees on ridges have a huge butt, in excess of 2 metres across. Leaves"
"(""Aesculus"" species, especially ""Aesculus hippocastanum""), is called a ""conker"" in the British Isles. Conkers are inedible because they contain toxic glucoside aesculin. They are used in a popular children's game, known as ""conkers"", where the nuts are threaded onto a strong cord and then each contestant attempts to break their opponent's conker by hitting it with their own. Horse chestnuts are also popular slingshot ammunition. Albala, Ken 2014. ""Nuts A Global History"". The Edible Series. Nut (fruit) A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible. In general usage, a wide"
"was not fertile in corn, but rich in fruit-trees (""maliferae Abellae""): the neighborhood also abounded in filberts or hazelnuts of a very choice quality, which were called from thence ""nuces Avellanae"". By antonomasia, the namesake came to define hazelnuts in general. Still in Spanish, in Portuguese and in Occitan the hazelnut is respectively called ""avellana"", ""avelã"" and ""avelana/aulana"". That is also the case of Old Italian ""avellana"", which, however, is not in use anymore. In Romanian, a variant of the Latin ""abellana"" has survived as ""alună"", meaning hazelnut, or in some contexts peanut. The modern town of Avella is situated"
"the genus ""Corylus"". This hazelnut or cob nut, the kernel of the seed, is edible and used raw or roasted, or ground into a paste. The cob is round, compared with the longer filbert nut. Common hazel is typically a shrub reaching 3–8 m tall, but can reach 15 m. The leaves are deciduous, rounded, 6–12 cm long and across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. The flowers are produced very early in spring, before the leaves, and are monoecious with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins. Male catkins are pale yellow and 5–12 cm long, while female catkins"
"Hymenaea courbaril Hymenaea courbaril (courbaril and West Indian locust) is a tree common in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. It is a hardwood that is used for furniture, flooring, and decoration. Its hard fruit pods have edible dry pulp surrounding the seeds. Its sap, called animé, is used for incense, perfume, and varnish. ""Hymenaea courbaril"" is commonly known as the ""courbaril"", ""West Indian locust"", ""Brazilian copal"", and ""amami-gum"". Although it is sometimes denominated ""Brazilian cherry"" and ""South American cherry"", it is not a cherry tree but a legume of the Fabaceae family. It is also known as ""stinking"
"Nickernut Nickernuts or nickar nuts are smooth, shiny seeds from tropical leguminous shrubs, particularly ""Guilandina bonduc"" and ""Guilandina major"", both known by the common name warri tree. ""C. bonduc"" produces gray nickernuts, and ""C. major"" produces yellow. Accordingly, these species are locally known in the Caribbean as ""grey nickers"" and ""yellow nickers"". The word ""nicker"" probably derives from the Dutch word ""knikker"", meaning clay marble. In the Caribbean, nickernuts are used to play mancala games such as oware. The nickernut is marble-like and good for other uses, such as for jewellery; it is also sometimes ground up to make a"
"Jojoba Jojoba , with the botanical name Simmondsia chinensis, and also known as goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, and gray box bush, is native to Southwestern North America. ""Simmondsia chinensis"" is the sole species of the family Simmondsiaceae, placed in the order Caryophyllales. Jojoba is grown commercially to produce jojoba oil, a liquid wax ester extracted from its seed. The plant is a native shrub of the Sonoran Desert, Colorado Desert, Baja California Desert, and California chaparral and woodlands habitats in the Peninsular Ranges and San Jacinto Mountains. It is found in southern California, Arizona,"
"for exportation and local consumption as powder, for hot beverages, and bread Breadnut leaves are commonly used as forage for livestock during the dry season in Central America. The fruits and seeds are also used to feed all kinds of animals. Brosimum alicastrum Brosimum alicastrum, commonly known as the breadnut or Maya nut, is a tree species in the family Moraceae of flowering plants, whose other genera include figs and mulberries. The plant is known by a range of names in indigenous Mesoamerican and other languages, including: ""ramon, ojoche, ojite, ojushte, ujushte, ujuxte, capomo, mojo, ox, iximche, masica"" in Honduras,"
"United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Agriculture Handbook 654, 1990). Carya tomentosa Carya tomentosa, (mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or walnut family. The most abundant of the hickories, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are needed. The wood makes an excellent fuelwood, as well. The species' name comes from the Latin word ""tomentum"", meaning ""covered with dense short"
"Kumquat Kumquats (or cumquats in Australian English, ; ""Citrus japonica"") are a group of small fruit-bearing trees in the flowering plant family Rutaceae. They were previously classified as forming the now historical genus ""Fortunella"", or placed within ""Citrus sensu lato"". The edible fruit closely resembles the orange (""Citrus sinensis"") in color and shape but is much smaller, being approximately the size of a large olive. Kumquat is a fairly cold-hardy citrus. The English name ""kumquat"" derives from the Cantonese ""gām-gwāt"" , literally meaning ""golden orange"" or ""golden tangerine"". The kumquat plant is native to south Asia and the Asia-Pacific region."
"turkey, woodpeckers, pheasants and other animals. The male catkins are a food staple of ruffed grouse throughout the winter. The nuts are edible, although smaller than the more commonly cultivated filberts (""Corylus maxima"", ""Corylus colurna"", ""Corylus avellana"", and hybrids thereof). Native Americans used ""Corylus americana"" for medicinal purposes. ""Corylus americana"" is cultivated as an ornamental plant for native plant gardens, and in wildlife gardens to attract and keep fauna in an area. There are cultivated hybrids of ""Corylus americana"" with ""Corylus avellana"" which aim to combine the larger nuts of the latter with the former's resistance to a North American"
"would be carved and scraped by tools from the inside and outside. Then it will be left to be dried. Constructed body: In this method sections of walnut or mulberry wood are cut and boiled in hot water. These sections or ribs should have the thickness around 2 -3 mm. When they are flexible they are stressed on a crescent shaped mold or former. After drying, they will be glued and joined to each other. Then the neck and the top plate or belly will be joined to complete the structure. Barbat (lute) The barbat () or ""barbud"" was a"
"Peanut The peanut, also known as the groundnut, goober, or monkey nut (UK), and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume and, due to its high oil content, an oil crop. World annual production of shelled peanuts was 44 million tonnes in 2016, led by China with 38% of the world total. Atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than aboveground. It is this"
"plums to produce a variety that was more drought-tolerant and hardier in upland orchards, than in lowlands such as the Santa Clara Valley, then the prune growing center of California. Gillet's last and most enduring plant introduction was in 1885, when he sold a large quantity of filbert (hazelnut) stock to orchardists in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Although filberts had been grown in Oregon since the 1850s, Gillet's imported ""Barcelona"" and ""DuChilly"" varieties proved to be superior. The ""Barcelona"" variety remains the most widely planted in Oregon, which today produces 98 percent of the filbert crop in the United States. Ironically,"
"Cucurbita foetidissima Cucurbita foetidissima is a tuberous xerophytic plant found in the central and southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It has numerous common names, including: buffalo gourd, calabazilla, chilicote, coyote gourd, fetid gourd, fetid wild pumpkin, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, stinking gourd, wild gourd, and wild pumpkin. The type specimen was collected from Mexico by Humboldt and Bonpland sometime before 1817. The feral perennial buffalo gourd has evolved in the semiarid regions and is well-adapted to desert environments. It contains high amounts of protein and carbohydrates and yields abundant oil. The carbohydrates that are formed in the tap root"
"nut oils. One hybrid, ""C."" x ""demareei"" Palmer (""C. glabra"" x ""cordiformis"") was described in 1937 from northeastern Arkansas. Carya glabra Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada. Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory. The pear-shaped nut ripens in September and October and is an important part of the diet of many wild animals. The wood is used for a variety of products, including fuel for home heating. The range"
"Carya tomentosa Carya tomentosa, (mockernut hickory, mockernut, white hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or walnut family. The most abundant of the hickories, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight-growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are needed. The wood makes an excellent fuelwood, as well. The species' name comes from the Latin word ""tomentum"", meaning ""covered with dense short hairs,"" referring to the underside of the leaves which help identify"