Castanea dentata

• BOTANICAL NAME: Castanea dentata
• COMMON NAME: American Hickory
• FAMILY: Fagaceae
• NATIVITY: Used to be found all throughout rich woodlands, now more scare.
• GROWTH HABIT: 20-30’; past range before blight (50-70’; 100’).
• HARDINESS:  Zone 4 to 8
• OPTIMUM GROWING CONDITIONS:  Light sun, moist-dry soil, and found in a range throughout the east coast.
• SUCCESSIONAL STATUS:  Climax
• FACULTATIVE STATUS:  Undefined
• LANDSCAPE VALUE:  Pale yellow flowers, unpleasant odor.  Wanted for its edible nuts.
• FOLIAGE:   Alternate, simple, oblong with a serrated edge; 5-8” long
• BUDS:  Glabrous, chestnut brown.  Rounded, dome shaped.
• BARK:  Glabrous, chestnut brown.
• FRUIT: Nuts with a sweet taste, chestnut brown.
• PESTS:  Cryphonectria parasitica - the blight that nearly killed off the species