Betulaceae
57 edible species
Trees and shrubs including birch, alder, and hazelnut; hazelnuts are edible nuts.
Italian elder
Edible: Not edible.
Black alder, European alder
Edible: Leaves & Bark - medicine
Edible: Leaves - tea;
Grey alder
Edible: Not edible. The dried wood is used for smoking meat.
Nepalese alder
Edible: Leaves - tea
White alder
Edible: Bark
Oregon alder, Red alder
Edible: Wood - flavour, Bark, Buds, Catkins, Sap
Hazel alder, Smooth alder
Edible: tea, Possibly medicine
Sitka Alder
Edible: Flowers
Mountain alder
Edible: Wood - flavour
American Green Alder
Edible: Flowers
Mountain alder
Edible: Wood - flavour
Yellow birch
Edible: Sap, Leaves - spice, Leaves - tea, Bark
Indian birch
Edible: Bark
Saur, Sunli
Edible: Fruit, Bark - masticatory, Buds - tea
Scrub birch, Ground birch, Dwarf birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves - tea
Kenai Birch, Alaskan Paper Birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves
Sweet birch, Black birch
Edible: Sap, Bark, Leaves - tea, Twigs - oil
Bog Birch, Dwarf Birch, Smooth Dwarf, Birch, Swamp Birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves - tea
River Birch, Red Birch, Tropical birch
Edible: Bark, Sap
Water birch, White birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Sap
Paper birch, Canoe Birch, White birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Sap, Bark, Leaves - tea
European Birch, Silver Birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Sap - wine, Bark
White Birch, Asian white birch
Edible: Inner bark Sap
Grey birch
Edible: Sap, Bark
White birch, Brown Birch, Downy birch, Hairy birch
Edible: Flowers, Leaves, Sap
Edible: Juice - drink
Himalayan birch
Edible: Bark - tea, Stems - water
Horse bean, Horsebeam, Witch hazel
Edible: Sap, Leaves
American Hornbeam
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Edible: ?
American Hazelnut, American filbert
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Hazel nuts, Cob-nut Hazel, Filberts
Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Flavouring, Spice, Oil, Flowers, Buds, Leaves
Edible: Oil, Oil, Seed
Edible: Seeds, Nut
Chinese hazel tree, Chen
Edible: Seeds, Nuts, Leaves - tea
Turkish Hazel tree
Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Fruit, Leaves
Beaked hazelnut, Beaked filbert
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
California Hazel
Edible: Oil, Seed
California hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Pi zhen ye zhen
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Himalayan hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Fruit
Siberian filbert, Siberian hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Hybrid & Neohybrids, Hazel, Filbert
Edible: Oil, Seed
Indian tree hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Oil
Manchurian hazel nut
Edible: Nuts
Filbert tree, Giant filbert, Purple-leaf hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Japanese hazel, Siebold's hazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds, Seeds-oil, Fruit
Hairy hazel, Japanese hazelnut
Edible: Oil, Seed
Hairy hazel, Japanese hazelnut
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Tibetan Hazelnut
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Trazel, Turkish trazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Hazelbert, Mildred filbert
Edible: Nuts
Filazel
Edible: Nuts
Chinese trazel
Edible: Nuts, Seeds
Dian zhen
Edible: Nuts
Shirenghen chai
Edible: Leaves - tea