Botany Photo of the Day Castanopsis delavayi

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Despite a spectacular bloom with sprays of gold-coloured flowers in the spring, this relative of oak trees remains largely unknown in cultivation. Delavay’s chinquapin is native to four provinces in southern China, where it is an arboreal constituent of the region’s mixed and broad-leaved evergreen forests. Introduced into Western cultivation in 1924 via George Forrest, […]

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