The same shape as the chestnut, only smaller than the chestnut cone chestnut.

Cone Chestnut has a long history of growth in Xiangxi, according to experts in Xiangxi to find the earliest cone chestnut tree group, there have been more than 200 years of age of the cone chestnut tree can still bear a lot of chestnuts, really worthy of "hardcore crops".

Chestnuts and chestnuts name is different, chestnuts also known as chestnuts, Chinese chestnuts, chestnuts also called hazelnut. Chestnut and chestnut shape is different, chestnut head is slightly larger, one side of the flat, the other side of the bulge, cone chestnut like a cone, teardrop shape.

Bred in the mountains of western Hunan Longshan cone chestnut, its fruit cone-shaped, reddish-brown rind, beautiful appearance, the flesh is glutinous and sweet, and its nutrients and flavor are superior to the chestnut, containing a variety of amino acids and trace elements needed by the human body, nutritious, stomach tonic kidney, is the young and old natural wood-based food- - -The chestnut is one of the four kinds of woody food included in the national protection.

Widely distributed in the southern slopes of the Qinling Mountains to the south, north of the Five Ridges around, but Taiwan and Hainan does not produce. Born in the hills and mountains at an altitude of 100-1800 meters, commonly found in deciduous or evergreen mixed forests. Chestnut is one of the important woody food plants in China. The fruit can be made into chestnut powder or canned. The wood can be used for sleepers and construction.

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