--- In American_Chestnut_Trees_and_Hybrids@yahoogroups.com, "Len" <vze2myxa@...>
wrote:
>
> I finally planted some Ozark Chinquapin seeds. I can't wait to see how
> well they grow. Does anyone have Ozarks, Henryi, or hybrids?
>
I wish! Central Florida is flat-out too warm for any kind of chestnut.
Chinquapins will grow as
far south as Northern Florida, I think. But that's the bottom end of the range.
There's an old-
time banjo tune called "Chinquapin Pie"--I'm a moderator on a banjo
website--which
suggests that the chinquapin was of some importance in people's lives and diets
in the past.
And there's a chinquapin oak and chinquapin rose, suggesting the same. (In the
case of the
chinquapin rose, both flower buds and fruit look like chestnut burrs.) Nowadays
few people
seem to have heard of the chinquapin unless they're interested in the chestnut
in the first
place.