Chestnut (Latin Castánea) is a small family of the Bug family (Fagaceae) Chestnut is a warm temperate climate tree. It grows on the slopes of mountains, as a rule, on shaded slopes with brown medium-earth soils lying on non-calcareous rocks; Dry and waterlogged soils can not stand. The chestnut grows relatively quickly, has a great sprout ability from the stump, which it retains until old age. The largest known specimen is the chestnut of hundreds of horses, aged 2-4 thousand years, with a circumference of the trunk of 57 m.