Chinese Chestnut Seedling

bare-root trees
Castanea mollissima

40-60' × same. Low-branching broadly rounded open form with large long narrow sharp-toothed shiny green leaves. Curious catkins look like green fireworks sprouting from the branch tips. Grooved grey bark. Although variable because they are seedlings, they usually produce good-to-excellent nuts 5–7 years after planting. Immune or at least highly resistant to the dreaded chestnut blight and used in breeding work to develop a blight-immune American chestnut. Native to eastern Asia. Z4. (1-3')

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7481 Chinese Chestnut Seedling

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