Bouche Rouge

Variety of Sweet chestnut · Castanea sativa

Southern-French heirloom with red-brown skin and fine flavour.

Also known as: Bouche Rouge de l'Aveyron

🇫🇷 France 1900

Taste & characteristics

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Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Medium nut with a distinctive red-brown striped shell and sweet flesh.

Robust tree well adapted to Mediterranean and montane sites.

Regular, moderate yields.

Also used for chestnut flour (farine de chataigne).

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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