Skookum
Variety of Chestnut hybrids · Castanea x hybrids
Vigorous variety with medium-large, fine-flavoured nuts — pollen-sterile, needs a pollinator.
🇨🇦 Canada
Taste & characteristics
Taste
nuttysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Castanea-Hybride (Gellatly-Auslese)
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-large nuts of exceptionally fine, sweet flavour.
Growth
Vigorous, tall-growing tree with good timber form.
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