The bristly, apple-sized burrs contain 3-7, medium to large, crisp, sweet chestnuts for fresh-eating, roasting, boiling, or baking. Fast growing habit provides dense, lustrous foliage provides good shade. Easy-to-grow. Disease-resistant to chestnut blight. Cold-hardy. Ripens in September. For proper pollination, plant two seedlings or a grafted chestnut variety.