Yellow Chestnut Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)

Family: Fagaceae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Bloom Color: Brown. Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Late spring, Mid spring. Form: Rounded, Spreading or horizontal.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Late Summer, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet and rather pleasant eating. — It is up to 18mm long.; The seed contains very little bitter tannin, it is quite sweet and rather pleasant eating.; Tastes nice when baked in an oven.; Any bitter seeds can be leached by thoroughly washing the seed in running water though many minerals will also be lost.

Habitat & North American Range

Dry calcareous slopes and ridges, or on rich bottoms. Well-drained uplands, favouring limestone soils and avoiding acid soils. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)