# Chestnuts & Chinquapins

> Native chinquapins and blight-resistant chestnuts grown from seed, for nuts, wildlife and the pleasure of a chestnut in the yard again.

2 of 68 plants. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/chestnuts/. Each plant links to its own Markdown page with the full facts, description and growing guide.

Columns: Zones are USDA hardiness zones, the coldest zone the plant survives (2 coldest to 10 warmest); Height is mature height in feet; Sun and Soil list every condition the plant takes; Grown as is the form the nursery sells; Price is the lowest current price, or "ask" when the plant is not yet priced online (email captain@bluewhaletrees.com or join the waitlist on the web page).

This table accepts the shop's filters as query parameters on this address: size (shrub, small-tree, medium-tree, large-tree), sun (full, part, shade), moisture (dry, average, wet), zone (2 to 10), want (flowers, fall-color, edible, rare, honey, evergreen, nitrogen-fixing, wildlife), as (acorns, seed, nuts, saplings) and q (a search word). Several values may be joined with commas.

| Plant | Botanical name | Group | Type | Height (ft) | Zones | Sun | Soil | Grown as | Price |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Allegheny Chinquapin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-chinquapin/index.html.md) | *Castanea pumila* | Chestnuts & Chinquapins | Small tree | 10–25 | 5–9 | Full, Part | Dry, Average | Saplings, Nuts | ask |
| [Chinese Chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chinese-chestnut/index.html.md) | *Castanea mollissima* | Chestnuts & Chinquapins | Medium tree | 40–60 | 4–8 | Full | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |