Castanea sativa
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Castanea sativa, commonly known as the sweet chestnut or the Spanish chestnut, is a deciduous hardwood tree native to Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.

Sweet chestnut trees are generally monoecious, bearing both male and female flowers on the same tree. The male flowers are large, 2.5–4 cm long, borne in 10–20 cm long catkins; the female flowers are much smaller, borne on 1–2 cm long catkins. The fruit is a spiny cupule 5–9 cm in diameter, containing two to three large nuts. The nuts develop during late summer and fall, and ripen 7–8 weeks after pollination. The sweet chestnut is a diploid species, with 22 chromosomes, and is self-incompatible. The tree reaches 20–35 m tall and 1 m trunk diameter when mature, on average. Large trees can attain 46 m height and 1.75 m diameter.

Botanical Data

Specie: Castanea sativa

Common Names: Pitomi kesten

Family: Fagaceae

Sub Family: Fagoideae

Tribe: Castaneae
Sub tribe: Castaneinae
Genus: Castanea
Plant type: tree
Perennial: yes
Endangered:
Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_sativa
Application/Uses
edible rating:
exeptional
edible uses:
The sweet chestnut is the source of the chestnut of the horse-chestnut family Aesculus, from which the large sweet edible nuts of the beech family Fagaceae are also sometimes called chestnuts. The sweet chestnut should not be confused with the horse-chestnut, water chestnut or Chinese chestnut.
medicinal rating:
satisfying
medicinal uses:
health concerns:
other uses:
The wood is light, hard, strong and close-grained; it is pale brown, but when cut it is of a yellowish tinge. The sapwood is thin, while the heartwood is very resistant to decay. It weighs 45–65 lb per cubic foot. Sweet chestnut is used for furniture, interior joinery, flooring, fence posts, railway sleepers and vine posts. It is also a popular firewood, as it burns long and hot. It is also used in charcoal production. Sweet chestnut is a traditional material for the manufacture of cudgels and walking sticks, and can also be used for turnery and carving.

Edible parts:


seed

#Tags:


keystone specie | hedge | carbon farming | attracts wildlife | fire wood | building wood | windbreak | erosion preventing | bee friendly | visual appeal |
Location Based Data
geo location:
Krcedin
geo region:
Europe - Panonian plain
language used:
english

native:
yes

flowering start month:
july
flowering start day:
beggining
flowering lasts for
30 days

fruiting start month:
october
fruiting start day:
beggining
fruiting time:
30

seed start month:
october
seed start day:
beggining

indoor seed start month:
indoor seed start day:
transplant month:
transplant day:
Growing Data
area needed:
10.0
spacing around the plant:
5.0
grow time (non perennials):
None

growing difficulty:
medium
plant is
evergreen

seed optimal temperature:
20
seed minimal temperature:
10
seed maximal temperature:
30

plant optimal temperature:
20
plant minimal temperature:
-10
seed maximal temperature:
30

water:
medium
humidity:
root type:
deep

light:
high
hardness (1-10):
5
frost tender:
low

first harvest in
20 years
life span is
500 years
succession level
late

growth rate is
3
max height is
30.0 meters
max weight is
15.0 meters

soil preferance:
ph preferance:
flower type:
monoecious

growth details:
Sweet chestnut trees are generally monoecious, bearing both male and female flowers on the same tree. The male flowers are large, 2.5–4 cm long, borne in 10–20 cm long catkins; the female flowers are much smaller, borne on 1–2 cm long catkins. The fruit is a spiny cupule 5–9 cm in diameter, containing two to three large nuts. The nuts develop during late summer and fall, and ripen 7–8 weeks after pollination. The sweet chestnut is a diploid species, with 22 chromosomes, and is self-incompatible. The tree reaches 20–35 m tall and 1 m trunk diameter when mature, on average. Large trees can attain 46 m height and 1.75 m diameter.
potential disturbances:
The sweet chestnut is susceptible to a large number of diseases, most notably sweet chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica. The disease was accidentally introduced into the United States on nursery stock in the early 1900s, and has since decimated the American sweet chestnut population.