Common trees on the island include the chestnut, cypress, oak, olive tree, pine, plane, and tamarisk.

It is very dark brown in color, and its flavor is rich, sweet, and complex, with the finest grades being the product of years of aging in a successive number of casks made of various types of wood ( including oak, mulberry, chestnut, cherry, juniper, ash, and acacia ).

The sheltered location of the city, facing south with hills to the north, mountains to the east and mountainous islands to the west, contributes to Molde's climate and unusually rich plant life, especially among species naturally growing on far lower latitudes, like maple, chestnut, oak, tilia ( lime or linden ), beech, yew, and others.

Moving upwards, olives and chestnut trees appear while in the higher regions there are often dense forests of oak, pine, beech and fir trees.

Quercus montana ), the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect.

Extensive confusion between the chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ) and the swamp chestnut oak ( Quercus michauxii ) has occurred, and some botanists have considered them to be the same species in the past.

The name Quercus prinus was long used by many botanists and foresters for either the chestnut oak or the swamp chestnut oak, with the former otherwise called Q. montana or the latter otherwise called Q. michauxii.

The application of the name Q. prinus to the chestnut oak is now often accepted, although sometimes that name is declared to be of uncertain position, unassignable to either species, with the chestnut oak then called Q. montana, as in the Flora of North America.

The leaves are 12-20 cm long and 6-10 cm broad, shallowly lobed with 10-15 rounded lobes on each margin ; they are virtually identical to the leaves of swamp chestnut oak and chinkapin oak, but the trees can readily be distinguished by the bark, that of the chinkapin oak being a light ash-gray and somewhat peeling like that of the white oak and that of swamp chestnut oak being paler ash-gray and scaly.

The Poppelsdorfer Allee is an alley flanked by chestnut trees which had the first horsecar of the town.

The local area is home to a relatively large number of American chestnut trees, planted by pioneers from New York and Pennsylvania who settled in western Michigan.

Red hair ( chestnut ) is also used by some bassists.

It is the highest town in Sardinia, and situated among fine scenery with some chestnut woods.

Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside ; the remiges are also blackish.

Displayed at right is the color chestnut, also known as the web color Indian red.

The coat is variously described as sandy, tawny or greyish with brown, chestnut or faded rosettes.

The name Mitsubishi ( 三菱 consists of two parts: " mitsu " meaning " three " and " hishi " ( which becomes " bishi " under rendaku ) meaning " water caltrop " ( also called " water chestnut "), and hence " rhombus ", which is reflected in the company's famous logo.

The diamond has been compared in size and shape to a pigeon egg, walnut, a " good sized horse chestnut " which is " pear shaped.

The plumage is usually composed of browns, whites, chestnut, black and grey, often with barring of patterning.

The chestnut oak is easily distinguished from the swamp white oak because that tree has whitened undersides on the leaves.

Another important distinction between the chestnut oak and the swamp chestnut oak is by the habitat ; if it grows on a ridge, it is chestnut oak, and if it grows in wet bottomlands, it is probably the more massive swamp chestnut oak ; however, this is not fully reliable.

Although the dark underwing and lack of a white trailing edge to the wing are diagnostic, these features are not always readily seen in the field, especially as the chestnut underwing of the Collared Pratincole appears black unless excellent views are obtained.

These features are not always readily seen in the field, especially as the chestnut underwing appears black unless excellent views are obtained.

The coat has dark blotches or patches ( which can be orange, chestnut, brown or nearly black on color ) separated by light hair ( usually white or cream in color ).

It caused an avalanche of requests to Top 40 radio by fans who had seen the movie to revive the 1965 Righteous Brothers chestnut.

It has been a long-time tradition for the residents of surrounding suburbs to spend summer evenings by coming to the downtown area for a leisurely stroll with their families along the avenues and boulevards encircling the Central Hill, under the famous Sevastopol chestnut trees, and usually ending up on the waterfront with its famous Marine Boulevard.

The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1. 5-3 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak,

In between these extremes are found the Japanese chestnut ( Castanea crenata ) at average ; followed by the Chinese Chestnut ( Castanea mollissima ) at about, then the European chestnut ( Castanea sativa ) around.

But soon after that, the American chestnuts were nearly wiped out by chestnut blight.

The Australian gold rush of the 1850s and 1860s saw the first recorded plantings of European chestnut trees, brought in from Europe by the first settlers.

On alkaline soils, chestnut trees can be grown by grafting them onto oak rootstocks.

The chestnut mosaic virus is probably transmitted by Myzocallis castanicola aphids.

A warm aerosol-based protection has been developed for older trees, by Sifter and Bürgés in 1971. It is not recommended to plant chestnut orchards beside Turkey oak forests, because both trees are susceptible to the chestnut weevil ( which also uses the Turkey oak acorn to develop ), and the Turkey oak trees can pass it on to the chestnut trees.

The Rock Kestrel has less heavily marked, brighter chestnut upperparts and its underparts are also a bright chestnut that contrasts with the nearly unmarked white underwings.

The chestnut fruit has a pointed end with a small tuft at its tip ( called " flame " in Italian ), and at the other end, a hilum – a pale brown attachment scar.

The U. S. chestnut industry is in its infancy, producing less than 1 % of total world production.

This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.

* The main threat to chestnut trees comes from grey squirrels stripping its bark, from when the tree is about 8 years old and onwards through the life of the tree.

* In Hungary, the most common moth threatening chestnut trees is the acorn moth ( Laspeyreisa splendana ) and its subspecies.

But chestnut wood loses much of its durability when grown beyond fifty years old, and despite the local chestnut's quick growth rate, it remains that the timber used for these two buildings is considerably larger than a 50-year-old chestnut's girth.

Dry, chestnut firewood is best burned in a closed log-burner, because of its tendency to spit on an open fire.

Before the species was devastated by the chestnut blight, a fungal disease, it was one of the most important forest trees throughout its range.

The blight-resistant Chinese Chestnut is now the most commonly planted chestnut species in the U. S. It can be distinguished from the American chestnut by its hairy twig tips which are in contrast to the hairless twigs of the American chestnut.

The pathogenic fungus Cryphonectria parasitica ( formerly Endothia parasitica ) is a member of the ascomycota ( sac fungus ) category, and is the main cause of chestnut blight, a devastating disease of the American chestnut tree that caused a mass extinction in the early 1900s of this once plentiful tree from its historic range in the eastern United States.

Surviving chestnut trees are being bred for resistance to the blight, notably by The American Chestnut Foundation, which aims to reintroduce a blight-resistant American chestnut to its original forest range within the early decades of the 21st century.

To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the Chestnut Blight was around 3. 5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3. 5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone.

Since its recognition as a different species from the similar-appearing chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ), Q. muehlenbergii has generally been regarded as a distinct species ; no subspecies or varieties are currently recognized within it, although a few infraspecific variants had been accepted in the past.

At the Bowling Green Lord Burlington positioned eight sweet chestnut trees around its perimeter, echoing the eight Tuscan columns located around the circumference of the Lower Tribune.

It is less tolerant than many of its associates such as white and chestnut oaks, hickories, beech ( Fagus grandifolia ), maples, elm, and blackgum.

The male has a dark grey crown from the top of its bill to its back, and chestnut brown on the sides of its head.