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Chinese chestnut

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Chinese chestnut
n.
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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Noun1.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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Sadly, at the dawn of the 20th century, a fungus introduced on imported Chinese chestnut trees very nearly caused the extinction of the American chestnut, or Castanea dentata.
Fighting the blight by Art Culinaire
The blight seems to have originated in Asia, and some trees of the Chinese chestnut species don't even develop cankers when they encounter the fungus.
Any hope for old chestnuts? Can't see the forest, but there are still ... by Milius, Susan / Science News
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