Castanea sativa

Tree

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Woods in mountains.

Family: Fagaceae
Height: 30 m / 99 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 5 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 5 of 5

Native Habitat

Sweet Chestnut, European chestnut Castanea sativa native habitat is Woods in mountains.

Edible Uses

Seed - raw or cooked. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and a flavour rather like sweet potatoes. The seed is rich in carbohydrates, it can be dried, then ground and used as a flour in breads, puddings, as a thickener in soups etc. The roasted seed can be used as a coffee substitute. A sugar can be extracted from the seed.