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Variety of Sweet chestnut · Castanea sativa

Vigorous variety with medium-large, fine-flavoured nuts — pollen-sterile, needs a pollinator.

🇺🇸 USA

Taste & characteristics

nuttysweet

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

Medium-large nuts of exceptionally fine, sweet flavour.

Vigorous, tall-growing tree with good timber form.

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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