Chestnuts cooked eat good. Trees up to 20 meters high, 80 centimeters in diameter at breast height, winter buds about 5 millimeters long, branchlets gray-brown, stipules oblong, 10-15 millimeters long, sparsely long hairs and scaly glands.

Leaves elliptic to oblong, 11-17 centimeters long, as wide as 7 centimeters, short to acuminate apically, base nearly truncated flat or rounded, or both sides slightly curved inward and auricular, often oblique and asymmetric on one side, the base of the newborn leaves often narrowly cuneate-acute and symmetric on both sides, the leaf abaxial surface of the stellate ambrosial tomentum or due to the hairs fall off to become a few glabrous; petiole 1-2 centimeters long.

Custody storage

Chestnut is a nut, but also known as nuts in the "fresh fruit", due to nutrient-rich, high water, so the vitality of the strong activity, custody up to four fear: fear of freezing, fear of heat, fear of drying and fear of water. Such as improper storage is very easy to cause water loss, germination and spoilage. Generally in the custody process, when the temperature in the sack exceeds 20 ℃, should immediately take the inverted stack, string bag ventilation and other cooling measures.