Castanea henryi

The Henry’s chestnut is a large tree in the beech or Fagaceae family and is native to China where it is distributed widely. It is a deciduous tree growing up to 25 m tall.

• Young shoots dark-coloured and quite glabrous.
• Leaves are 10–20 cm long and 2.5–3.8 cm wide, oblong-lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, tapered at the apex to a long slender point, the margins having bristle¬like teeth terminating the primary veins; colour is green on both surfaces but rather paler below and quite glabrous except for a few whitish appressed hairs on the veins; veins are in 12–20 pairs; leaf stalk is 0.7–2.5 cm long, glabrous.
• Male catkins are 10 cm or more long, solitary in the leaf-axils.
• Fruit is a solitary cone-shaped nut, 1.2-2 cm wide at the base nut, enclosed in a prickly husk 2.5 cm wide; they can be solitary or 2-3 in a cluster.