American Chestnut

This selection is the legendary American chestnut, once the dominant large tree of eastern North American forests, now rare in its pure form, and offered here as an important conservation and heritage planting with ornamental merit.

• Oblong, toothed, dull green leaves.
• Fall colour is shades of yellow.
• Aromatic creamy-yellow-white flowers clustered in slender catkins.
• Small nuts are sweet and edible and encased in spiny burrs.
• Grows best in full sun.