Articles
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS ON CHESTNUT CULTIVARS FOR WOOD PRODUCTION
Article number
866_93
Pages
701 – 709
Language
English
Abstract
During 12 years research has been done on growth, architectural traits and cultivation techniques of some cultivars (Cardaccio, Mozza, Politora, Perticaccio and Mondistollo) traditionally cultivated in Central Italy for their high timber quality.
These cultivars offer a further opportunity to improve the quality of chestnut wood production both establishing stands specifically managed for high quality timber production and to enrich thin stands to improve, in quality and quantity, chestnut forests wood production where the stand density allows.
They come out as an additional option to those ones offered by the silvicultural systems studied to manage more rationally coppice stands.
Research was carried out in two areas, in Lucca and Bologna provinces, in order to test the cultivar both in traditional cultivation areas and in another different environment.
The cultivars showed different growth rates and a specific architectural development.
These cultivars offer a further opportunity to improve the quality of chestnut wood production both establishing stands specifically managed for high quality timber production and to enrich thin stands to improve, in quality and quantity, chestnut forests wood production where the stand density allows.
They come out as an additional option to those ones offered by the silvicultural systems studied to manage more rationally coppice stands.
Research was carried out in two areas, in Lucca and Bologna provinces, in order to test the cultivar both in traditional cultivation areas and in another different environment.
The cultivars showed different growth rates and a specific architectural development.
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Authors
A. Tani, A. Maltoni, B. Mariotti
Keywords
Castanea sativa, high quality timber, survival, height growth, architectural traits, branching patterns
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