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Castanea vesca
About
The sweet chestnut, also known as the Spanish chestnut or European chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Anatolia, and widely cultivated in Western and Central Europe. A substantial, long-lived deciduous tree, it produces an edible seed, the chestnut, which has been used in cooking since ancient times.
- Family
- Fagaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Castanea vesca
- Slug
- castanea-vesca
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Genus
- Castanea
- Species
- vesca
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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