Castanea pumila - chinquapin
chinquapin
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Species:
1. Pawpaw
2. Mimosa
3. Chinquapin chestnut
4. Siberian pea shrub
5. Chinese yam
6. Fox grape
7. Good King Henry
8. Giant Solomon's seal
9. Illinois bundleflower
10. Bearberry
11. Dwarf comfrey
12. Paper mulberry
Polycultures:
1. Butternut-concord grape
2. Seabeach Polyculture
3. Turkish Rocket Broccoli Production
Forest Gardens:
1. Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
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small nuts, one per burr
Nuts the size of chick peas. Very good sweet flavor. Have not seen more than one per burr.
Eric Toensmeier - writer, trainer, plant geek - www.perennialsolutions.org
good fruit set this year (Aug 9 foto)
Still only 4' high and covered in nuts!
Eric Toensmeier - writer, trainer, plant geek - www.perennialsolutions.org
chinkapin flowering June 1
Flowering full-on June 1 in western MA.
Eric Toensmeier - writer, trainer, plant geek - www.perennialsolutions.org
native dwarf chestnut
Small native bush chestnut. We have one that fruited at 4' tall! Nuts are pretty small though, about chick-pea sized and only one per husk. Cute though.
If you want chestnuts and only have a little space, you could try chinkapins, or just grow Chinese chestnuts from Badgersett Research Farm http://www.badgersett.com/ and coppice them regularly.
Two supposedly needed for pollination but ours set some fruit this year even though only one flowered, and there are no chestnuts in the neighborhood.
Eric Toensmeier - writer, trainer, plant geek - www.perennialsolutions.org