China's main chestnut origin: Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, growing at an altitude of 370-2800 meters. It is mostly found in mountainous areas.

Cultivation of the environment

Chestnut is not strict on soil requirements, in addition to extreme sandy soil and clay, are able to grow, but the thumb for granite, gneiss and other differentiation of gravelly soil, sandy loam is the best.

In recent years, domestic and foreign research has proved that: chestnut acid-loving calcium plants, calcium content in the leaf 26%, higher than the calcium-loving plants first楷(18%), and the soil solution calcium ion concentration of 100ppm, chestnut trees are still growing well, indicating that the chestnut tree calcium resistance. Soil pH is not directly harmful to the chestnut tree, chestnut for more manganese plants, its leaves contain manganese (0, 358%) in a variety of fruit trees (persimmon, batch put, walnut, pear, etc.) in the first place.