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Young tree in natural habitat American chestnut male (pollen) catkins. Castanea dentata is a rapidly-growing, large, deciduous hardwood eudicot tree. [20] A singular specimen manifest in Maine has attained a height of 115 feet (35 m) [21] Pre-blight sources give a maximum height of 100 feet (30 m), and a maximum circumference of 13 feet (4.0 m). [22]
Bark of C. sativa (sweet chestnut). Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate (for the Chinese chestnut tree) to fast-growing for American and European species. [4] Their mature heights vary from the smallest species of chinkapins, often shrubby, [5] to the giant of past American forests, C. dentata that could reach 60 metres (200 feet).
Growth rings of Castanea sativa . The sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), also known as the Spanish chestnut or just chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.
Leaf and flower detail of a Chinese chestnut at New York Botanical Garden. It is a deciduous tree growing to 20 metres (66 ft) tall with a broad crown. The leaves are alternate, simple, 10–22 centimetres (4– 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and 4.5–8 cm (1 + 3 ⁄ 4 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) broad, with a toothed margin.
The original habitat of the American chestnut. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Wikimedia Commons. An estimated 3 billion to 6 billion American chestnut trees once covered forests ...
The swamp chestnut oak closely resembles the chestnut oak (Quercus montana), and for that reason has sometimes been treated as a variety of that species.However, the swamp chestnut oak is a larger tree which differs in preferred habitat, and the bark does not have the distinctive deep, rugged ridging of the chestnut oak, being thinner, scaly, and paler gray.
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, [1] [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. [4] It is also called horse-chestnut, [5] European horsechestnut, [6] buckeye, [7] and conker tree. [8]
The American chestnut tree used to grow throughout the eastern U.S., but was devastated by a blight in the early 20th century.