Taxon:
Castanea mollissima Blume
Summary
Place of publication:
Mus. bot. 1:286. 1851
Verified:
11/20/2009
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts CRC Press.
- Fernandez-Lopez, J. 2011. Identification of the genealogy of interspecific hybrids between Castanea sativa, Castanea crenata and Castanea mollissima. Forest Syst. 20:65-80. URL: http://revistas.inia.es/index.php/fs
- FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/ Note: mentions
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Castanea+mollissima&quantity=1
- Forest Experimental Station, Korea. 1966. Illustrated woody plants of Korea. Note: = Castanea bungeana Blume
- Govaerts, R. & D. G. Frodin. 1998. World checklist and bibliography of Fagales URL: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do
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- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
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- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:88. Note: = Castanea bungeana Blume
- Nishio, S. et al. 2011. Genetic diversity of Japanese chestnut cultivars assessed by SSR markers. Breed. Sci. 61:109-120.
- Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
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Common names
English
Chinese chestnut – Chinese hairy chestnut – French
châtaignier de Chine – German
chinesische Kastanie – Japanese Rōmaji
shinaguri – Spanish
castaño chino – Transcribed Chinese
ban li –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Anhui Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Gansu Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangdong Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guizhou Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hebei Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Henan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hubei Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hunan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangsu Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Jiangxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Liaoning Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Nei Mongol Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Qinghai Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shaanxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shandong Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Shanxi Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Sichuan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Xizang Zizhiqu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Zhejiang Sheng | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | wild? |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | widely cult. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | United States | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | widely natzd. |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range obscure |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Anhui Sheng, Zhejiang Sheng, Fujian Sheng, Henan Sheng, Hebei Sheng, Hunan Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Gansu Sheng, Jiangxi Sheng, Jiangsu Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Guizhou Sheng, Liaoning Sheng, Shanxi Sheng, Shandong Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Qinghai Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Xizang Zizhiqu]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Korea, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDO-CHINA:
Vietnam (wild?)
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
Asia-Tropical
Northern America
Naturalized
(widely natzd.)
Other
(exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Human food | nut | | Duke, J. A. 1989. Handbook of Nuts CRC Press. |