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Castanea P. Miller. Common name: Chestnut, Chinquapin.

Key to Castanea

A genus of 8-10 species, trees and shrubs, of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

References: Johnson (1988); Kubitzki (1993g) In Kubitzki, Rohwer, & Bittrich (1993); Nixon (1997a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997); Perkins et al. (2021); Spriggs & Fertakos (2021); Stanford (1998). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Keith Bradley | Castanea dentata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Castanea pumila | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Castanea dentata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Castanea dentata | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Castanea pumila | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Castanea dentata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Keith Bradley | Castanea pumila | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Castanea pumila | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Castanea dentata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Castanea pumila | Original Image ⭷

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