All members of the Chestnut family are monoecious, i.e. each plant has both
male and female reproductive parts. There are no 'male' or 'female'
chestnuts.

--beeky

llama mama wrote:

Borderline Neurotic wrote in
:

Justin wrote:

I was unaware that there are
several different types of chestnut trees. How do I determine which
kind I have?

If it has nuts it's a male tree. No nuts equals female.

huh? i have an American chestnut. AFAIK, there are no other surviving
American chestnuts anywhere around, certainly none of blooming size.
however, my chestnut produces nuts. this year looks to be a *huge* crop
of nuts, in fact. it appears my chestnut has both male & female flowers,
as there are two different looking 'flowers' on it every year, & as i
said, it produces nuts.
i have 2 black walnuts heavily producing nuts & i'm getting a rather
decent crop from my poor blighted butternut (anything one can do for
butternut blight? i admit there are other butternuts in the sugarbush, so
it may be cross pollinated). OTOH, i have a Carpathian walnut that
doesn't do anything but attract bag worms & borers. i suspect it needs a
walnut of the opposite gender nearby to do anything. no big deal. it's a
nice looking tree, except in the fall with the bag worms... and even
then, it looks very cool for Halloween g.
lee