A chestnut is an edible brown nut that grows on trees belonging to the genus Castanea. It sits inside a sharply spiked shell ...

Do not eat fresh chestnuts raw: It's essential to roast or cook fresh chestnuts before eating or adding them to preparations.

In Sicily, chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) is present at altitudes that run from 300 to 1600 m asl and, due to the extreme variability of the environmental conditions, a large autochthonous germplasm ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 20, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHESTNUT (2006), pp. 96-100 (5 pages) DNA analysis was used to characterize the chestnut germplasm grown or endangered in the region ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Imagine no more roasting chestnuts on an open fire. What was once one of the most dominant trees in America has been dying off. The American chestnut tree was nearly gone, wiped ...

Although many Americans still associate the winter holidays with chestnuts, the tree that once produced them — the American chestnut — no longer does so, except in a few rare cases. During the first ...

The 38-foot tall chestnut tree behind Rick and Jen Hartlieb’s Robesonia farmhouse has to fight for sunlight from a neighboring maple. Of all the chestnuts on their 12-acre farm, this hardy specimen is ...