Chestnuts
CHESTNUT--HARVESTING
When chestnuts fall from the tree, collect the burs and lay out on screens or boards until they split into several sections. Discard the bur and save the nut inside.
Chestnut tree leaves and fruit
By Ann MacDonald
Chestnut (Castanea) - A noble tree, native of E. and S. Europe.
Chestnut Oak
(Quercus montana Willd.)
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, 5"-9" long, to 3" wide; with course, rounded teeth. Dark green and smooth above, paler and occasionally downy beneath.
Chestnut Oak
Scientific Name: Quercus michauxii Nutt.
Synonym: Quercus houstoniana, Quercus prinus
Family: Fagaceae ...
Chestnut sedge is a nativeof the brackish and salt marshes of Florida, but is sometimes found in freshwater marshes. It is common nearly throughout the state (Wunderlin, 2003).
Ichthyomyzon castaneus
Chestnut Lamprey
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Chestnut makes excellent timber. Though in old age the wood is brittle and liable to crack, when in a growing stage, having very little sap wood, it contains more timber of a durable quality than an oak of the same dimensions, ...
Horse Chestnut
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common name for some members of the Hippocastanaceae, a family of trees and shrubs of the north temperate zones and of South America.
Horse Chestnut trees line Skagit Lane, forming a shady colonnade. Native to Greece and Albania, this species was introduced to the United States in the 1740s because it has the showiest floral display of all large shade trees, with foot-long (0.
(horsechestnut family)
TOXICITY RATING: Moderate to high.
ANIMALS AFFECTED: All animals may be affected, especially grazing animals and those consuming the honey.
This horse chestnut has double white flowers that are sterile: so, no seeds, no conkers. The flowers which are longlasting are the same attractive cone shape as the species.
Red Horse Chestnut
The large, dense, pyramidal shape of this tree is echoed in its many flower panicles. The inedible brown fruit of these Horse Chestnuts or Buckeyes holds slightly toxic, glossy seeds. Can also be grown as a shrub.
Moreton Bay Chestnut
From LoveToKnow 1911
MORETON BAY CHESTNUT, a tall tree known botanically as Castanospermum australe (natural order Leguminosae), native of Queensland and New South Wales. The pods are almost cylindrical, about 9 in.
Soils: Malabar chestnuts are not overly fussy about soil as long as it is well drained.
( Chestnut Apple )
Apple trees can grow to a height of 30 feet and a width of 15 feet with a growth of 8 to 12 feet per year. They require rich soil, moderate watering, good drainage and full sun.
Noteworthy characteristics: Chestnut rose grows well in mixed borders or on its own; it makes a nice, informal hedge. It can tolerate high heat and humidity.
Care: Grow in fertile, moist, well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade.
Known as one parent of the popular red horse chestnut, red buckeye itself is uncommon. The only one noted on campus is a few yards northwest of the northwest corner of Littlefield Center (in the direction of Albers Wall).
Native to Australia, as the name indicates, Australian Chestnut is a large evergreen tree growing to 40 m tall, though it may be found much smaller. Leaves are 15 X 6-7 cm , pinnate, with 11-15 leaflets.
Chestnuts Castanea Mill
alternate arrangement.
leaves simple.
21. Chestnut Castanea dentata leaf ...
chestnut oak Fagaceae Quercus prinus L. symbol: QUPR2
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CAPE CHESTNUT
Calodendrum capense
General Notes
Briefly deciduous. SelecTree lists no cultivars of capense.
130cm, Horse-Chestnut Leafed Rodger's Flower has most ornamental, largely divided leaves from a basal rhizome and a tall and lax raceme with numerous small white flowers in spring. Native of open spots in woods in East Asia.
Castanea - Chestnuts and Chinkapins
Castanea alnifolia - Florida Chinkapin
Castanea dentata - American Chestnut
Castanea mollissima - Chinese Chestnut
Castanea ozarkensis - Ozark Chinkapin
Castanea pumila - Allegheny Chinkapin; Chinquapin ...
Chestnut blight was first described in the Bronx Zoo in 1904 but had probably been killing American chestnut trees in scattered pockets across the eastern seaboard for several years prior to that date.
Chestnuts have less oil and more starch than most nuts and so are used differently in cooking. Roasted chestnuts are a wintertime favorite on both sides of the Atlantic.
Chestnut
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About 12 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, furrowed bark; terminal buds absent. Leaves alternate, usually conspicuously toothed, 2-ranked.
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Guiana Chestnut
Malabar Chestnut
Saba Nut
Water Chestnut
Although Pachiras can get rather large in size, most gardeners are familiar with them as the small potted plants with interweaved stems and attractive leaves.
Guiana chestnut is grown both for tropical effect and for its edible nuts. It can also be potted up as a houseplant. The nuts taste sort of like peanuts. They are harvested when the seed pods burst and eaten raw, roasted, or fried.
Spanish Chestnut, once established, is tolerant of drought. It does best in sandy, well drained soils and is highly tolerant of acidic soils. If kept too dry when young, Spanish chestnut may remain as a shrub and never grow to tree size.
Chinese chestnuts grow best in the acid soils of East Texas and are poorly adapted to the extremely alkaline soils of portions of South, Central and West Texas.
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Description:
Chestnut Oak (also known as Rock Oak) is among the more bold-textured of oaks in winter (with its stout stems, stark outline, and furrowed bark), and casts a dense shade in summer with its dark green foliage.
Family: Horse Chestnut (Hippocastanaceae)
Flowering: April
Field Marks: This buckeye is recognized by its red flowers. The husk surrounding the buckeye is not prickly.
Bur oak, English oak, swamp chestnut (Quercus macrocarpa, Quercus robur, Quercus michauxii)
Bur reed (Sparganium ramosum, Sparganium erectum)
Burning bush, spindle tree (Euonymus species)
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horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum
Hottentot-fig; iceplant; sea fig Carpobrotus edulis
houndstoungue Cynoglossum officinale
hydrilla Hydrilla verticillata
iguanatail Sansevieria hyacinthoides
incised halberd fern Tectaria incisa ...
Acer rubrum 'October Glory' October Glory Red Maple Acer saccharinum Silver Maple Acer saccharum Sugar Maple Acer saccharum 'Bonfire' Bonfire Sugar Maple Acer saccharum 'Green Mountain' Green Mountain Sugar Maple Aesculus hippocastanum Horsechestnut ...
Chestnut Beauty. Salmony chestnut, purple and cream-line throat. (Award of Merit)
Dainty Miss. Soft salmon-pink, rosy pink fleckings, creamy throat, lined petals. (Award of Merit 2003.)
Dolores. Light pink with white throat, one of the purest.
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TRIMMING LEAVES: This mainly concerns trees with broad leaves, like chestnuts and oaks. Clip the leaves down by a half in late spring. Leaves clipped like this will drop off and be replaced with smaller leaves during the summer.
Stop 18 (HC) - Horsechestnut
Stop 19 (WP) - White Pine
Stop 20 (DR) - Dawn Redwood
Stop 21 (CW) - Common Witchhazel
Stop 22 (PO) - Pin Oak
Stop 23 (WA) - White Ash
Stop 24 (EB) - European Beech
Stop 25 (GA) - Green Ash ...
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Nombres relacionados: Baumann horse chestnut (inglés), Castanheiro da India (gallego/portugués), Castanyer bord (catalán), Castanyer d'India (catalán), Castaño de Indias (castellano), Chestnut bud (brotes) (inglés), ...
The genus Lithocarpus has been described as oak-like and chestnut-like; that is, with features intermediate between the genera Quercus and Castanea.
Description: Viscum is an evergreen shrub, hemiparasitic on the branches of deciduous trees, particularly oak, chestnut, apple or black poplar.
Sweet with a nice nutty flavour[46, 82, 183], it is very acceptable raw and has a superior flavour to sweet chestnuts (C. sativa)[142, 161, K].
Other garden nuts in additon to beechnuts could include sweet chestnut, chinquapins, black walnut, English walnut, butternuts, filbert hazels, hickory nuts, pine nuts, & acorns. Gardeners further south might well have a few more handy.
Oak, laurel and chestnut trees are also found up to 7,000 feet above sea level. Pine trees are found up to 12,000 feet above sea level; above that point only lichens, grass and moss can be found, since it is so cold in the higher regions.
Borers such as flat-headed appletree borer or two-lined chestnut borer bore into trees weakened by stress. Prevent the insect infestations by keeping trees healthy with regular fertilization and irrigation in dry weather.
Younger plants often have red, chestnut brown or orange bark, which starts to peel beautifully as the shrub matures to reveal a brown or tan colour underneath.
Rosa roxburghii Rose, Antique 'Chestnut Rose' (prior to 1814)
perennial, easy care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 6a thru 9b ...
Stand of unblighted American chestnuts discovered
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Five genera are native to North America, including the chinquapin (Chrysolepis), tanbark oak (Lithocarpus) and the chestnut (Castanea). Cork comes from the bark of the cork oak, Quercus suber.
Inside the hard outer skin there is a firm flesh that provides a very delicate and mellow flavor similar to the taste of chestnuts.
Other problems may include galls, oak wilt, cankers, bacterial leaf scorch, two-lined chestnut borer and orange-striped oakworm.
Mistletoe can be found between tree branches (even those taller than 4-5 meters): poplar, willow, birch, pear and apple trees, hawthorn, plum, cherry, acacia, maple, chestnut, lime, or more rarely in ash or alder trees.
that some of the plants that I had grown over the last 20 years were named by Taffler, including a piggyback plant, Tolmiea Taff's Gold. There was a variegated paperbark maple, several variegated hydrangeas, a spectacular variegated Chinese chestnut, ...
Dioscoride (40-90 AD), a Greek physician, botanist and physicist, thought the herb increased breast milk flow and helped people lose weight. In Italy, it may have been used to flavor lamb, pig liver, boiled chestnuts and beans.
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