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Hybrid Chestnut Seedling
bare-root trees
Castanea40-60' × 30-40' Seed collected from orchards with potential crossings of C. crenata (Japanese), C. mollissima (Chinese) and C. dentata (American).
Harvested from healthy trees showing excellent blight resistance. Great flavor and high annual nut production averaging 20–50 lb per mature tree. Typically begin flowering at age 3–5. Produce well even during harsh droughty conditions. Z4. (1-3') BACK!
Items from our perennial plants warehouse ordered
on or before March 7 will ship around March 31
through late April, starting with warmer areas and finishing in
colder areas. Orders placed after March 7 will
ship around late April through early-to-mid May, in the order in
which they were received.
ships in spring
7480
Hybrid Chestnut Seedling
Additional Information
Nuts
The nut seedlings we’re offering are grown from nuts harvested from the most productive specimens. Like all seedlings, each one is a little different, and nut quality may vary.
Chestnuts
Delicious sweet chestnuts are an important food for both humans and wildlife. Use them for roasting, stuffing and soups, or dry them to make flour for baked goods. The tree’s profuse fragrant white blossoms feed the pollinators. Lustrous dark green foliage is ribbed and sharp-toothed. Yellow fall color.
Before 1900 the American chestnut was one of the most important deciduous trees in the eastern U.S. Chestnut blight showed up in Brooklyn, NY, in 1904; within 50 years it killed virtually every chestnut tree in the eastern U.S. The blight does not kill the roots however, and rare stands of stump sprouts can still be found. Hybrid chestnuts and Chinese chestnuts are resistant to blight
Chestnuts prefer loamy well-drained acidic soil and full sun. Two or more needed for pollination and all three chestnuts we’re offering this year will cross-pollinate with each other.
