species
Castanea sativa
Spanish chestnut · Sweet Chestnut
Scale drawing from this record, beside a 1.7 m figure.
Castanea sativa belongs to the family Fagaceae, also known as Spanish chestnut or Sweet Chestnut, introduced before 1500 and long since part of the landscape. It grows in part shade, where the ground is acid or neutral and in well drained conditions.
Assembled from the attributes recorded below.
What this plant needs
- Aspect
- Part shade
- Acidity
- Acid, Neutral
- Moisture
- Well drained
- In the UK
- Archaeophyte (pre-1500)
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