ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the information on uses, folk medicine, chemistry, germplasm, distribution, ecol-ogy, cultivation, harvesting, yields, energy, and biotic factors of Castanea Pumila. Reported from the North American Center of Diversity, chinquapin, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate frost, poor soil, slope, weeds, and waterlogging. Few selections of chinquapin have been made. More frequently it has been hybridized with chestnuts. C. pumila var. ashei Sudw. (C. ashei Sudw.), the Coastal Chinquapin, grows on sand dunes and in sandy woods along the coast from southeastern Virginia to northern Florida and along the Gulf. Usually a spreading shrub east of Mississippi River, 2 to 5 m tall, forming thickets, often only 1.3 to 1.6 m tall, westward in range to Arkansas and eastern Texas, becoming a tree to 17 m tall with trunk up to 1 m in diameter, round-topped with spreading branches.
