NCCWDB

Castanea mollissima / Chinese chestnut / 板栗

  • Introduction
    Castanea mollissima branches are grayish-brown with longitudinal grooves, with many yellowish-gray rounded skins on the bark, and the young branches are covered with grayish-brown hairs. The winter buds are short, about 5 mm long, broadly ovate, hairy. The diameter of the shell bucket is 4-6.5 cm, the dense is close to the stellate pubescence, the spines are dense, the sharp spines of the mature shell bucket are long and short, there are sparse and dense, the outer wall of the shell bucket is fully covered when dense, the outer wall is visible when sparse, each shell bucket has 2-3 nuts, and the ripe is split into 4 petals, the flowering period is in April to June of each year, and the fruiting period is in August to October.
  • Common name: / Chinese chestnut / 板栗
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Fagales; Fagaceae; Castanea

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