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Castanea sativa Mill. Fagaceae

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Synonyms

Fagus castanea L.; Castanea vulgaris Lam.; Castanea vesca Gaertn.

Local Names

Azerbaijan: Аdi şаbаlıd; Georgia: – ts’abli, – gvij (Svanetian), – gvijra (Svanetian), – ch’ubui (Chanetian), – ch’uburi (Chanetian, Megrelian) (Makashvili 1991; Ketskhoveli et al. 1971–2011); English: Chestnut.

Botany and Ecology

Tree to 30 m high, trunk 1.5–2 m in diameter, with a wide spreading top. Branches spreading, the young ones pubescent, reddish-brown, lenticelate. Buds ovoid, covered with 2 scales. Stipules soon caduceus, linear or lanceolate. Leaves born on long shoots, 10–25 cm long, lanceolate, tapering toward apex, subulate-tipped, narrowed and entire at base, margins serrate-dentate, leaves at first densely covered above with short hairs, sooner densely covered with stellate hairs below and glabrous above, the lower surface prominently nerved, the lateral veins terminating in teeth. Flowers arranged in long catkins of two kinds, with both kinds borne on every tree. Some catkins only...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  2. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  3. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  4. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  5. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Mehdiyeva, N.P. et al. (2017). Castanea sativa Mill. Fagaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_58

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