Chestnut Hardwood Or Softwood

Good quality chestnut is currently scarce and should not have ring shakes or yellow discolouration.

Chestnut hardwood or softwood.

Sweet chestnut is an english hardwood which used to be a cheap alternative to oak. Because of the blight wiping out nearly all mature american chestnut trees its lumber is both rare and relatively valuable. These cuttings should be 4 6 inches 10 15 cm long and placed into well draining soil media. Wide x 78 in.

Chestnut may be used for interior joinery when kiln dried and is stocked as logsawn yielding widths of 100mm 220mm and lengths 2m. Another species of aesculus which is also in cultivation is a. The chestnut tree is a hardwood tree. Case 5 49.

Hardwood comes from trees with wide leaves while softwood comes from conifers like cypress and pines. Wormy chestnut in particular is usually salvaged from old barns and other structures and reprocessed and sold as reclaimed lumber. Propagating horse chestnuts can also be achieved through softwood and hardwood cuttings. A possible source of the greek word is the ancient town of kastanea in thessaly.

Turbinata japanese horse chestnut. Home legend horizontal chestnut 9 16 in. Thick x 2 in. Hardwood and softwood refer to the type of tree the wood comes from.

Thick x 4 3 4 in. Chestnut is part of the dicot group along with cherry oak maple ash and walnut which makes them all hardwoods. Cuttings of horse chestnut can be taken in spring for softwood or during fall for hardwood cuttings. The name chestnut is derived from an earlier english term chesten nut which descends from the old french word chastain modern french châtaigne.

The chestnut tree is a hardwood tree. Hardwood comes from trees with wide leaves while softwood comes from conifers like cypress and pines. The french word in turn derives from latin castanea also the scientific name of the tree which traces to the ancient greek word κάστανον sweet chestnut. You may dip the cut ends in rooting hormone for better.

Horse chestnut can be confused with other european hardwood species with lightweight diffuse porous wood such as european aspen populus tremula european lime tilia x europaea or crack willow salix fragilis. Prices are likely to be high for a domestic hardwood. Heritage mill hickory chestnut 3 8 in.