Sweet Chestnut

Castanea sativa

Description 9

Tree up to 15 m tall. Young shoots tomentose. Leaves elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 14-22.5 x 5-9 cm, nerves 11-14 pairs, rarely more, prominent on the under surface, ending in serrations at the margin, coriaceous, glabrous, acuminate, pale green and puberulous on the under surfaces; leaf-base often oblique. Male spikes 14-19 cm long, lax, pubescent. Female flowers solitary or in clusters of 3. Nut enclosed in a dense spiny involucre.

Fuentes y créditos

  1. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/16/167420-1.jpg
  2. (c) AnneTanne, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/78746377@N00/5068461198
  3. (c) Pete Mella, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), subido por Pete Mella
  4. (c) Benjamin Gimmel, BenHur, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Frucht_der_Edelkastanie.jpg
  5. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/16/167420-2.jpg
  6. (c) Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Castanea_sativa_JPG%28C0%29.jpg
  7. (c) Ondřej Zicha, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/1313.jpg
  8. (c) Willow, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castanea_sativa_004.jpg
  9. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/5003007

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