Chestnut

Chestnut; (Lat. Castanea). It is a forest tree from the Beech family of the icicles class.

The leaves of the winter, while the distance is 25-30 m upright is a tree. Rarely is also in the form of shrubs. The shells are smooth in young bodies, and cracks in old bodies. The color of the husk is reddish. Branches are common. The leaves are arranged in wide strips, gear alternating. Female flowers are a group of three. The flowers are single-sex. Male flowers are in the form of sharp ears. It blooms in May and June. The cup is a hard spine and completely covers the fruit. The fruit is a seedy, bright dark brown color. There are usually 3, sometimes 1-2 fruits in the cup. The fruit starts to ripen from the beginning of October. When the green skins begin to crack, the fruits are collected. Also sold in winter months. It is nutritive because of the presence of starch in the composition of the fruit. Chestnut candy is also made by dipping the syrup as it is defeated by boiling and frying. Especially the chestnut sugar of Bursa is famous. Wood is hard, flexible, durable and flexible, dark brown in color. It is used for roofing, parquet construction, especially for making barrels. Tool stalks, cage constructions, ring constructions etc. in their branches. areas. Dry wood of chestnut contains 7-10% of tannin. For this reason, together with kebrask wood, it constitutes the most important raw material in world tannin production. Powder or liquid extracts are used for tanning of the crops.

Chestnut trees grow in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Chestnut festivals grown for some trees in some regions and fruit trees for some regions are inoculated with 2 m. Fruits of non-vaccinated fidelites are small fruits known as lamb chestnuts. Vaccinated fidelites begin to produce fruit after 5-6 years. The chestnut tree is one of the longest-lived trees. Chestnut trees were found between 2000 and 4000 years. North in Turkey, grows in the Northwest and Southeast. In this area as in all of Turkey it has chestnut trees and scattered over a million.