So far, I have only seen two trees of this Paperbark Hazel from China in the Birch Family Collection of Morton Arboretum on the west side in Lisle, Illinois in October 2023 and one tree in the Chinese Collection back in late November of 2019 on the east side of the arboretum. It is a beautiful tree Hazel or Hazelnut or Filbert. It has lovely bark that is birch-like and appears in peeling papery rolls of beige and coppery brown. The leaves are smaller than most Hazel and are 3 to 6 inches long, usually 2 to 4 inches long. In landscapes it usually grows up to 50 feet high, but in its native wild habitat it can grow to 130 feet. Its 1/2 inch long nuts are edible, but are not as good for human food as the European or American Hazelnuts. It is fairly fast growing of 1.5 to 2 feet/year. It is resistant to the Eastern Filbert Blight that is hard on the European Hazel.

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