Belle Épine
Variety of Sweet chestnut · Castanea sativa
Late-flowering French variety — an ideal pollinator for other chestnuts.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
nuttysweet
Profile
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-sized, glossy mahogany- to red-brown nuts with good, sweet flavour that peel well.
Notes
Traditional French variety, widely used as a pollinator because of its late flowering.
Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Sweet chestnut unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page
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