Chinese chestnut

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Chinese chestnut

A chestnut (Castanea mollissima) native to China and Korea, resistant to chestnut blight and cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible nuts.

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Chinese chestnut - a small tree with small sweet nuts; wild or naturalized in Korea and China

Castanea mollissima

Castanea, genus Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapins

chestnut tree, chestnut - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

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