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Species
Chinese chestnut
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFagales
- FamilyFagaceae
Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Myanmar
Observations6,720
Observations recorded7,511
Castanea bungeana Blume; C. duclouxii Dode; C. fargesii Dode; C. formosana (Hayata) Hayata; C. hupehensis Dode; C. mollissima var. pendula X. Y. Zhou & Z. D. Zhou; C. sativa Miller var. formosana Hayata; C. sativa var. mollissima (Blume) Pampanini; C. vulgaris Lamarck var. yunnanensis Franchet.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,033
- With media
- 912
- Family
- Fagaceae
- Collections
- CAS, USFWS, MSC, MICH, RSA, CM
- Recorded in
- China, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Castanea
- Image
- Castanea mollissima, Hangzhou Botanical Garden 2018.06.03 15-39-04.jpg
- Has use
- wood
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- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Castanea mollissima
- Commons category
- Castanea mollissima
- taxon common name
- 栗树皮
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon range
- Guangdong
- short name
- C. mollissima
- taxon author citation
- Blume
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Encyclopedic overview
Castanea mollissima, also known as the Chinese chestnut, is an Asian species of chestnut tree in the family Fagaceae.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castanea mollissima” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.