Ohio’s Largest Turkish Filbert on Display

In 2012 the largest Turkish Filbert tree in Ohio had to be cut down.

But now, you can have another opportunity to view a section of the 61 foot tree. A round of it is now on loan at the John McIntire Library. It was 75 years old when cut down and has a 35 inch diameter, and OSU Extension master gardener, Schroeder Dodds, said it is a very unique tree.

“It definitely wasn’t cultivated to become the largest, but it is an unusual tree…There are not a whole lot of Turkish Filberts in the state, it would have been a planted tree and it was a rather unique tree at that time to be planted,” Dodds said.

It was unique when planted in the late 1930s and Dodds does not know of any other Turkish Filberts of this size.

“I know of no other ones other than one little tree that’s about two inches in diameter that has been planted on Euclid and Yale,” Dodds said. “Not one of a kind but one of very few.”

Dodds said the round will stay at the library for as long as the library wants to have it there.