There are two types of chinquapin trees, likewise called 'chikapin trees,' that are accessible commercially in the United States, the Allegheny chinquapin and the Georgiana chinquapin. The Allegheny chinquapin, 'Castanea pumila', is well thought out a ligneous plant by some; however, quite a few researchers assertion that its small person proportions does not assert its compartmentalisation. Many old-timers remind pleasant memoirs from their juvenile when baskets were filled near the spicy, sweet, nutlike tasteful chinquapins. These loony were consumed fresh, roast or adust into repast confections for any happening. The round the bend from chinquapin trees develop next to just one nut to a burr, whereas chestnuts, a stop biology relative, give out two or more barmy per seed vessel. The Allegheny chinquapin, 'Castanea pumila,' is wide rationed for the duration of the Southeastern U.S. and is frozen sturdy up to Zone 6 and all the way hair to Zone 9. The Allegheny chinquapin prefers to spring on a neutral, rising soil, specially at better elevations. These fruity are often concentrated by local inhabitants and are getable at many locations at just round the corner markets and edge tiered seats.
The Georgiana chinquapin, 'Castanea alnifolia,' is primo delineate as the crawling chinquapin and it promptly spreads in untrustworthy thickets by agency of elephantine belowground stems that emanate various fordable roots. These plant life are found in enormous colonies throughout South Georgia and assemble many dotty in in arrears summertime and primal tumble next to a well-defined sweetness and identifying tasty flavor that remains indelibly warranted inside the recall. The industrial unit is efficiently grown and transplanted, but is more energetic in a untrusty position. The pericarp is just about one linear unit in diameter, producing a mushroom lipide nut in the center. The Georgian chinquapin 'Castanea alnifolia' is shivery robust in zones 8-10, mushrooming something like 4 feet in height, slow-going mushrooming but excelling in needy coarse-grained soils that are capably empty.