chestnut

Table of Contents

References & Edit History Related Topics

Images

European chestnut

European chestnut

Read Next

Flower bingo

Britannica’s Flower Bingo

Plant seedlings emerging from rich fertile soil

Do Plants Feel Pain?

Ghost forest along the Lewis Gut - a stream along the coast near Core Point, North Carolina. Photographed in 2022

Ghost Forests Are Becoming the New Haunts of Climate Change

Red tulip among yellow tulips, Mount Vernon, Washington.

Tulip Mania: How a Plant Virus Fueled a Speculative Frenzy

Bristlecone pine (Pinus Longaeva) on the slope of Mount Washington in Great Basin National Park in the Nevada desert.

How Can Some Trees Survive for Thousands of Years?

Discover

Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Panama Canal infographic

Timeline and Map of the Panama Canal

Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

7 Winter Solstice Celebrations From Around the World

The Prado Museum facade at the Diego Velaszquez memorial. Established in 1819, the museum is considered the best collection of Spanish art and one of the world's finest collections of European art. Madrid, Spain

20 Paintings You Have to Visit at the Museo del Prado in Madrid

King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

chestnut: Media

plant

Images

European chestnut

European chestnut

European chestnut (Castanea sativa).

© sanddebeautheil/Shutterstock.com

European chestnut

European chestnut

The fall foliage of a European chestnut (Castanea sativa).

© lfrabanedo/Fotolia

VIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: