← chestnut
rights unknown
Okei
Castanea sativa × C. crenata
The record
- Parentage
- Castanea sativa × C. crenata
- Origin
- not recorded
- Rights
- rights unknown
- Pollination
- Not male-sterile, and recommended as a pollinizer for ‘Colossal’ alongside ‘Nevada’
Description
A European × Japanese hybrid kept in the mix as a second pollinizer option for ‘Colossal’. Its usefulness rests on a single fact worth checking before you buy any chestnut intended to pollinate: it is not male-sterile. A number of chestnut cultivars are, and a block planted without confirming that will set a disappointing crop.
Where to find it
No source recorded. That does not mean the cultivar is unavailable, only that this record does not yet name a nursery carrying it. Point us at one and it goes in.