Sweet Chestnut Trees - Castanea sativa - Standard

Sweet, Eating Chestnut - Castanea sativa

Castanea sativa, the eating or Spanish chestnut is a majestic dome shaped deciduous tree that produces pale yellow catkins in July and chestnuts by an open fire in November.

Sweet chestnut is an excellent parkland or woodland specimen. It is also often coppicedchestnut wood is almost rot proof so it makes excellent fencing. With climate change, sweet chestnuts grow and crop increasingly well in Britain. Eating chestnuts are not native to these shoresthe first chestnut trees arrived at the time of the Armada. Its Spanish origins are evident in its Latin nameCastanea has the same root as Castanet.

Plant in a well-drained site, but this is a tree that is not good on chalk. To 25m.

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