Sweet chestnut

Sweet chestnut
Sweet chestnut fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fagales
Family: Fagaceae
Genus: Castanea
Species:
C. sativa
Binomial name
Castanea sativa
Distribution map
  ✖ Probable native range and isolated population.
  ✖ Introduced and naturalized (synanthropic) area and isolated population since Neolithic.

The sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), also known as the Spanish chestnut or European chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world. A substantial, long-lived deciduous tree, it produces an edible seed, the chestnut, which has been used in cooking since ancient times.

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