YNW

BRIEF:
One of the Yixian selections out of Anhui Province, China — the same family as Yixian Large. A strong background, and we are waiting to see what this one does.


DETAILED:
YNW stands for Yixian North West, one of a group of selections Michael Nave made from seedlots out of Yixian, in the southern tip of Anhui Province in China.

That is a good family to belong to. Yixian Large produced the second largest nuts of any chestnut of any species at the University of Missouri repository in 2009 — beaten only by a single European-Japanese hybrid — and tied for first in a taste test there in another year. Yixian Orange is rated among the best tasting Chinese nuts grown in America. Yixian Good Flavor carries an unusually long drop, running from early season all the way through to late. The cultivar Shing came from the same seed lots as Yixian Large.

Nobody has published anything on this particular selection. It has the genetics and the family record behind it, and what it does in Connecticut soil is ours to find out.

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