# Chestnuts & Chinquapins

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

We grow four chestnut-family trees from seed. The native [Allegheny chinquapin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-chinquapin/index.html.md) is a small tree with small sweet nuts. Chestnut blight kills the stems of two more natives, [American chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-chestnut/index.html.md) and [Ozark chinquapin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ozark-chinquapin/index.html.md). The blight-resistant [Chinese chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chinese-chestnut/index.html.md), the one non-native in the catalog, is grown for its large nuts rather than for restoration. All four are sold as saplings and as nuts to sow, and the group covers USDA zones 4 to 9. Saplings ship while dormant, and nuts ship whenever they are in stock. The [Chinese chestnut article](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/chinese-chestnut/index.html.md) covers its size, growth rate, bark and how it differs from the American chestnut.

2 of 364 plants matching native to District of Columbia, Rare. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/chestnuts/?native=DC&want=rare. Each plant links to its own Markdown page with the full facts, description and growing guide.

Columns: Zones are the USDA hardiness zones the plant takes, from the coldest to the warmest it is rated for (zone 2 is the coldest, 10 the warmest); Height is mature height in feet; Sun and Soil list every condition the plant takes; Grown from is what the nursery offers it as (saplings, or acorns, nuts or seed to sow); 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), native (a state's two-letter code in capitals, such as PA: the plants native to that state by the USDA PLANTS records), want (a trait: flowers, fall-color, wildlife, honey, edible, evergreen, rare, drought, wet-tolerant, shade, early-bearing, screening, nitrogen-fixing, salt, winter-interest, street-tree, erosion-control; rare means uncommon in the wild or in nurseries, honey a nectar source for bees), 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 from | 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 |
| [American Chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-chestnut/index.html.md) | *Castanea dentata* | Chestnuts & Chinquapins | Small tree | 15–30 | 4–8 | Full, Part | Average, Dry | Saplings, Nuts | ask |