Chestnuts
Castanea
Chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. They are 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
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
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
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Castanea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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.