Beaked Hazelnut vs Golden Currant - TreeTime.ca

Beaked Hazelnut vs Golden Currant

Corylus cornuta

Ribes aureum

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Beaked Hazelnut
Golden Currant

Beaked Hazelnut is a multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub native to North America.

It features smooth, grey bark and edible nuts. Beaked Hazelnut prefers a rich sandy-clay loam but will grow on poorer sites, and can be used as an understory shrub.

Note: You want more than one hazelnut to improve yields.

Golden Currant produces berries for jams, jellies, sauces and even pemmican. This currant bush is very dense, allowing for use as a hedge, windbreak, or wildlife habitat.

This plant is also a very popular rootstock to graft popular red and white currant varieties to. The resulting plants are taller, more productive, and easier to harvest.

Beaked Hazelnut Quick Facts

Golden Currant Quick Facts

Zone: 2a
Zone: 4a
Height: 5 m (15 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (5 ft)
Spread: 2.1 m (7 ft)
Spread: 1.2 m (4 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: partial shade, full sun
Moisture: dry, normal
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: medium


Fall colour: reddish purple
Flowers: yellow
Berries: glossy black berries
Nuts: small, wildlife attracting
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: beaked hazel
Other Names: buffalo currant, clove currant, fragrant golden currant, golden flowering currant, spicebush