Filbert, Pontic, Cobnut, Hazelnut.
No matter which of its names we use, we are surely referring to the same mahogany colored nut. Humans have eaten and cherished the fruit of the hazel for as long as 8,000 years. Since the Mesolithic age, wisdom, inspiration, fertility, prosperity, abundance, and a list of other mystical qualities have been attributed to hazelnuts. Fast forward to 1856 and we find the English sailor Sam Strickland planting the first known hazel in the Pacific Northwest. From that one felicitous tree sprouted an Oregonian tradition of producing the finest hazelnuts in the world.