Cantan Great ordinary "", 1 pc, package, spring 2024

Primal chestnut of an ordinary - elegant tree up to 36 m high with a low -induced spinning wide -oval dome -shaped crown. On old trees, external branches often hang.

The trunk of the correct cylindrical shape with a dark brown plate bark.

The root system is powerful, with the rod main root and highly developed lateral roots, so that this tree is quite wind resistant. In the root hairs there are bacteria that absorb air nitrogen, so the trees successfully grow on soils relatively poorly nitrogen. Young shoots and seedlings are thick. The kidneys are large, sticky, red-brown.

The leaves are opposite, large, up to 60 cm, palmate with 5-7 leaves; Each leaflet is 13-30 cm in length, 3-10 in width, backward, to the base of the wedge-drying, the edge of the sheet is toothed. The middle leaf is larger than the side, the petiole is very long, 15-20 cm.

Flowers in the final eraseed cone -shaped panicles 10-30 cm in size, white, usually with small yellow spots or nettles. Each panel has from 20 to 50 flowers. It blooms in May after the leaves bloom. The flowers have an interesting property: yellow spots on the petals after stopping the secretion of nectar change the color to red. This serves as a signal of insect-pollinators, and they stop visiting such flowers.

Usually only from 1 to 5 fruits appear on each panicle. Fruits - green boxes, with numerous spikes, contain one (rarely two or three) nutty seeds (often in everyday speech called horse chestnuts or simply chestnuts). Each Kashtanchik is 2-4 cm in diane, brilliant, walnut-brown in color, at the base with a whitish scar. Fruits ripen in August - September.