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Introduction of productive long-lived forest species in Lebanon. Chestnut (Castanea spp.) . Nuwayhid. Keywords: chestnut, Castanea, Lebanon.

Mission is to encourage and give advise on appropriate and successful Chestnut tree planting. If interested read:
the potential for chestnut in lebanon - Acta Horticulturae
www.actahort.org/books/866/866_6.htm
Author: R.Y. Abstract:
Chestnut planting in Lebanon apparently found a small place some fifteen years
ago.

24/10/2026

Picked a couple of kilos of chestnuts today - these are Castanea sativa local variety with nuts with a reddish-brown tint.

17/10/2026

Gathering fallen chestnuts in Ras El Maten, Mount Lebanon

04/10/2026

Friendly cat helping harvest the chestnuts!

28/09/2026

EXJ Hybrid front right, C. mollisima front left, and C. sativas back. Chestnuts starting to mature here on Mount Lebanon, Middle East up the mount at 3000 ft.

19/09/2026

Looks like chestnut ink disease! Too bad for this Bournette chestnut seedling

13/09/2026

Chestnut burs swelling up. A couple of weeks max and the chestnut fall here in REM this year at about 1000 masl.

29/08/2026

Chestnut tree happy after a major rainfall. Ras El Maten, Mount Lebanon at 3000 ft asl.

25/08/2026

Set up some traps for the Leptoglossus insect that is harming the stone pine trees. In a month, we will replace the pheremone in the traps one time before winter.

01/08/2026

Chestnut tree project - the chestnuts amongst the pines

25/07/2026

Precoce Migoule Euro-japanese chestnut hybrid is quite precosious!

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