Castanopsis lamontii

Hance

Stone conical chestnut tree

FagaceaeSeeds/Nuts

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Nuts

The nuts are eaten.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant. They grow in mountain and broad-leaved evergreen forest between 500-2500 m altitude in China.

Asia, China, Indochina, SE Asia, Vietnam,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A tree. It grows 8-15 m high. It can be 25 m tall. The leaf stalk is 1.5-3 cm long. The leaf blade is oval and 12-30 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. They are thickly papery or leathery. There are 10-15 veins on each side of the midrib. The female flowering stalk is in the axils of leaves. It is borne above the male flowering stalk. The fruiting stalk is 10-20 cm long. The cup is round and 2.5-6 cm across. There are 2-3 nuts per cup. They are cone shaped. They are 2-2.8 cm long by 3 cm wide. They are densely hairy.

Notes

There are about 120 Castanopsis species. Many have edible nuts.

Names & Synonyms

Lu jiao zhui

Castanopsis goniacantha A. CamusCastanopsis lamontii var. shanghangensis Q. F. ZhengCastanopsis pachyrachis Hickel & A. CamusCastanopsis robustispina Hu

References (3)

Altschul, S.V.R., 1973, Drugs and Foods from Little-known Plants. Notes in Harvard University Herbaria. Harvard Univ. Press. Massachusetts. no. 642
Huang Chengjiu, Zhang Yongtian, Bartholomew, B., Fagaceae, Flora of China.
Hu, Shiu-ying, 2005, Food Plants of China. The Chinese University Press. p 345

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