name: Japanese Chestnut

flavor_db_name_variants: japanese chestnut

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Japanese chestnut

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name_scientific: Castanea crenata

description: Japanese Chestnut (Castanea crenata) is a species of chestnut originally native to Japan and South Korea. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10-15 m tall. The leaves are similar to those of the Sweet Chestnut, though usually a little smaller, 8-19 cm long and 3-5 cm broad. The flowers of both sexes are borne in 7-20 cm long, upright catkins, the male flowers in the upper part and female flowers in the lower part. They appear in summer, and by autumn, the female flowers develop into spiny cupules containing 3-7 brownish nuts that are shed during October.

itis_id: 506540

wikipedia_id: Japanese Chestnut

picture_file_name: 390.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 143368

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:44:15.000Z

legacy_id: 417

food_group: Nuts

food_subgroup: Nuts

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:39.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:24.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 103480

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00385