Sweet chestnut

The other kind of chestnut is commonly called horse chestnut. It is not related to this tree.

The sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), sometimes called European chestnut, Spanish chestnut or Portuguese chestnut is a kind of tree.

Sweet chestnut
Sweet chestnut tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Fagales
Family:	Fagaceae
Genus:	Castanea
Binomial name
Castanea sativa

The fruit of the tree

Castanea sativa

Originally these trees were native to the Mediterranean parts of Europe and Asia Minor. These trees can grow to sizes between 20 and 35m high. The trees are deciduous, they do not have leaves in winter.

The trees are usually grown for their edible fruit.

Sweet Chestnut Media

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  Millennium-old specimen in Levie, Corsica, France

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  Fallen chestnuts from a C. sativa

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  The 450-year-old Spanish chestnut tree at Balmerino in Fife, Scotland

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  A sweet chestnut carved by English artist Steve Field to commemorate the English Civil War, and depicting Prince Rupert hiding from the Roundheads in the well at Wollescote Hall in Stourbridge, West Midlands