Habitat

• native to Northern China and Korea
• zone 4

Habit and Form

• a medium-sized, deciduous tree
• 40' to 60' tall and up to 60' wide
• rounded crown
• slow growth rate
• medium texture

Summer Foliage

• alternate leaf arrangement
• simple, deciduous leaves
• 3" to 6" long
• oblong, linear leaf shape
• cuneate leaf margin
• dark green leaf color
• pubescent underneath

Autumn Foliage

• yellow, bronze fall color

Flowers

• creamy
• foul odor
• monoecious
• borne in 4" to 5" long panicles
• blooms in June

Fruit

• nut enclosed in spiny involucre
• edible fruit

Bark

• brown bark color
• strongly ridged and furrowed

Culture

• transplant easily
• prefers acid, well-drained, loamy soil
• full sun

Landscape Uses

• for fruit production
• street tree
• lawn tree
• for shade tree

Liabilities

• fruit can be a litter problem
• blight and cankers
• chestnut blight

ID Features

• alternate leaf arrangement
• brown, pubescent imbricate buds, 0.25" long
• edible nut
• peculiar odor to flowers

Propagation

• by seed
• by cuttings

Cultivars/Varieties

• Various cultivars are grown for nut production, including 'Abundance', 'Kuling', 'Meiling' and 'Nanking'.