Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost cooking chestnut ... Chestnuts are edible nuts from deciduous trees in the genus Castanea and are part of the same family as oak and beech trees.

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut oak. It is an oak species commonly found in the southern part of ...