Chestnuts
Castanea
The chestnut (Castanea) group is a genus of eight or nine species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Sweet Chestnut
speciesCastanea sativa
American chestnut
speciesCastanea dentata
Chinese chestnut
speciesCastanea mollissima
Allegheny Chinquapin
speciesCastanea pumila
Japanese Chestnut
speciesCastanea crenata
Ozark Chinquapin
speciesCastanea ozarkensis
Hybrid Chestnut
hybridCastanea dentata × mollissima
Alabama chinquapin
speciesCastanea alabamensis
Chinese Dwarf Chestnut
speciesCastanea seguinii
Henry's chestnut
speciesCastanea henryi
chinknut
hybridCastanea × neglecta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.241
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.26
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.101
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.411
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.409
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.150
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1172
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.14
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.13
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.823
Anatomy or the Interior of Things
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek · 1687 · p.484
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.103
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49187.