Taxon: Castanea sativa Mill.

Common names:

• castaño común   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• castanheiro-comum   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• châtaignier commun   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Eßkastanie   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Edel-Kastanie   (Source: Zander Ency )
  
• European chestnut   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Marone   (Source: Zander Ency )
  
• regoldo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• Spanish chestnut   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• sweet chestnut   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: nut   (fide F Eur ed2; F Turk; F USSR)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary [w.]; Netherlands; Slovakia
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy - Sardinia, Sicily; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [n.e.]
  Europe
• ALSO
  Asia

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts. CRC Press. (Handb Nuts)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. (Zander Ency) [re. German common names].
• Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales. (L Fagales)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran) [mentions].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition. (F Eur ed2)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Castanea sativa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Castanea sativa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Castanea vesca Gaertn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Castanea vulgaris Lam.
  
• (=) Fagus castanea L.
  
• (≡) Fagus procera Salisb.
  

Check other databases for Castanea sativa Mill.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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