Sweet Chestnut Tree

Description: Sweet Chestnut can grow to 30 metres in height. It has massive spreading branches. At 25cm, the leaves are amongst the ... more

Sweet Chestnut Tree ... longest of any tree in Britain and are glossy green and toothed. The male and female flowers form on the same long, upright stalk, the female part being at the base. After pollination, the male flowers die but the stalk remains above the newly formed cluster of nuts. Surrounded by a spiky green case, the nuts only develop fully in good years in the UK.

Newest Review: ... tall, a bit large for a modern garden. The thick trunk will have barked that has deep grooves spirally running vertically ... more

... (good for bark rubbings.) The wood is used for furniture. ~~ . The leaves are long have serrated edges and are very tough. The tree looses its leaves in October November as it is deciduous, ~~ The sweet chestnut has both male and female flowers in June July time these are both in the catkins which stand upright 10-20 cms long. The female flowers when fertilized will develop in to the nut. ~~ The nut of the sweet chestnut is edible not like the conker from the horse chestnut. The nut is encased in a prickly spiky gree...more

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Sweet Chestnut Tree: Its that old sweet chestnut again (714 words)
by - written on 21/11/07 (Very useful, 235 readings)
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Sweet chestnut. ~~~~~~~ Underneath the spreading chestnut tree, there I. . . ohh sorry I got carried away singing that old song it made me think of sweet chestnuts which many people will be roasting and eating this Christmas time . . This chestnut is the Sweet chestnut Castanea sativa not the horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum... The sweet chestnut tree is not as common in England as the horse chestnut, Although the Sweet chestnut has been here for very many years it is not a native of England but it is believed it ids a Spanish native brought to Britain by the Romans. Sometimes sweet chestnuts are called Spanish ... Read the complete review

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