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Sweet Chestnut on tree and on the ground
Kew Gardens
Entre Ciudad Rodrigo y Plasencia, 9 junio
Mostly Iberian Peninsula, also common all over Europe
Es un árbol de gran desarrollo (entre 20-30 metros de altura) cuyo tronco llega ...
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Castaños milenarios - ancient chestnut
Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before going into battle.
Sweet chestnut trees, spotted in Pelion mountain, Greece. The species is widely ...
Spiny cupules of sweet chestnut. The female flowers develop into spiny cupules ...
European species sweet chestnut (Castanea ...
A tree grown from seed may take 20 years or more before it bears fruits, which ...
A substantial, long-lived deciduous tree, it produces an edible seed, the ...
Es un árbol de gran desarrollo (entre 20-30 m de altura) cuyo tronco llega a ...
The spiny cupules contain 2-5 nuts although they are not ripe in the picture. ...
not yet winter a late autum during the day,beautiful ...
This is a rather young tree of chestnuts. They grow very well on the hills ...
The adult female weevil bores a tiny hole in the immature nut to lay her eggs, ...
This is a very old chestnut tree. The trunk has about a meter in diameter, ...
develop in rotten wood of deciduous and coniferous trees, especially
develop in rotten wood of deciduous and coniferous trees, especially
Large gall on chestnut leaf, red on the upper side, green & reddish on the ...
Medium-sized to large deciduous tree attaining a height of 20–35 m with a trunk ...
Chestnut fruit covered by spikes last August. In spanish they are called erizos ...
Chestnut fruits are inside the thorny capsules of the picture and they fall off ...
Adults grow up to 13–20 millimetres and can be encountered from May through ...
