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§1 Plant
Castanea mollissima Blume
vernacular Chinese chestnut — species · Fagaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Fagaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Castanea
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 36 counties across 12 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -20 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 180 min.
- Precipitation
- 35–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.5
- Root depth
- 36 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Multiple Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 25 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 75
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- High
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 36 counties across 12 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Bell 21013
- Breathitt 21025
- Calloway 21035
- Carter 21043
- Christian 21047
- Clay 21051
- Fleming 21069
- Floyd 21071
- Franklin 21073
- Graves 21083
- Henry 21103
- Jefferson 21111
- Laurel 21125
- Letcher 21133
- Madison 21151
- Magoffin 21153
- McCreary 21147
- Montgomery 21173
- Morgan 21175
- Oldham 21185
- Russell 21207
- Wolfe 21237
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CAMO83 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5333237 ↗Record version
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