Sweet chestnut tree

Sweet Chestnut, Castanea sativa: "Beauty in Utility" Handsome, long-lived, with texture galore, sweet chestnuts in their several varieties are distinguishe

Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; So begins H. D. Longfellow's poem 'The Village Blacksmith' one oft-remembered by people of a certain age in the UK as a poem they've learnt in school. While the poem is more about impressing the fact that "at the flaming forge of life/ Our fortunes must be wrought;", for me it ends at the first line itself. For when one begins to contemplate the spreading chestnut-tree neither fortunes nor the flaming forges of life manage to get a…

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Find out all about the tree from which our classic Christmas nut grows. Learn where to find sweet chestnut, what it looks like and how it is used.

Just a few weeks ago, I went and checked the local chestnut trees that are in a field near where I live. Ever since I moved to the new homestead, I have been eagerly visiting these trees. Last year, they dropped plenty of husks but with only shriveled nuts inside. This year, I was extraordinarily

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Great forests of American chestnut trees died from chestnut blight, but their cousins across the seas, European chestnuts, continue to thrive. Beautiful shade trees in their own right, they produce mo

Chestnuts are the hard nut-like fruit of the chestnut or chinquapin tree. These nuts are contained within a light brown, prickly case often referred to as a bur, which grows in clusters at the end of chestnut tree branches.

It has long been thought that sweet chestnut trees were introduced to Britain by the Romans – a belief popularised by 18th-century writers – but new research assessing archaeobotanical samples from this period has now cast doubt on such assumptions.