Bower & Branch Chinese Chestnut (improved) Tree

Description

Chinese Chestnut, Seed Grown from Selected, Superior Trees!

• Our assortment of trees and plants come from specialty growers across the United States. Please expect orders with numerous items or selections to be delivered over several days as a result.

• Our assortment of trees and plants come from specialty growers across the United States. Please expect orders with numerous items or selections to be delivered over several days as a result.

Improved Chestnuts are medium to large understory tree with broad crown. Native trees have two to three small fruits (2-3 cm diameter each) in each spiny cupule. Chinese chestnuts grown from seed of superior selections readily cross-pollinates with other species of chestnut to form hybrids. In the early days of the United States, millions of American Chestnut Trees grew across the land, from Michigan to Maine and south to Mississippi and northwestern Florida. The largest specimens were over 100 feet tall and had trunks 12 feet thick. The durable wood supplied people with the material to make furniture, railway ties, and utility poles. Then, in 1904, a deadly Chestnut blight from China appeared at the BronZoo. By the time Nat King Cole was singing about roasting chestnuts in 1946, most of the country’s Chestnut Trees had fallen victim. We offer seedlings from mature, surviving Chestnut Trees in northwestern Illinois in an effort to help get this glorious species reestablished!-Grow your own delicious sweet chestnuts -Fluffy and fragrant cream-colored catkins adorn the tree in summer before morphing into chestnuts for fall harvest-Dark, glossy green leaves turn an amber brown in fall-Two trees are needed to ensure proper cross pollination for fruit production-Chestnut makes a wonderful shade tree-Blight resistance makes it a great replacement for American Chestnut -Hand selected, fresh from the grower-Ships in a plant-safe designed box

Product Details

• Castanea mollissima (improved)
• Live plant material, potting medium, 3 nursery pot
• Hardiness zones 4-8
• Dark green/ cream colored catkins
• Prefers acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, well-drainded, clay soils
• Full sun
• Chestnut Trees will appreciate watering deeply, and regularly during its first few years in the ground. Irrigate weekly, and especially during long dry spells or extreme heat after it’s established.
• Mature size 30-60′ tall 20-40′ wide
• Matures in spring