Chestnuts

The marrons and chestnuts are fruits from chestnut, large tree, large trunk, large glossy green foliage. Belonging to the family of cupulíferos or fogalis can reach heights up to 30 meters, is located in Italy in the Alps and the Apennines between the S300 and 1000 meters altitude.

Fruits (1 to 3) are contained into a spiny cocoon (hedgehog) green opens four valves when mature, leaving the fruit falls to the ground.

The chestnut has a long life, trees with more than a thousand years and comes to fruition after 15 years and reaches the peak of the vegetation around the age of 50 year.

For the chestnut cultivation is not require the use of any chemical, the plant is fed exclusively with natural nutrients that the earth has to offer, without pesticides or fertilizer treatments. we could say that a is a organic is organic.

The bark of young trees is smooth and grayish brown, and later brown and deeply cracked. The trunk of the chestnut trees can reach diameters up to 2 meters in adulthood, is subject to partial degradation forming large cavities, making it a haven for many wildlife.