Editing Chestnut (section)

==In culture==
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[[File:Flegel - Krammetsvögel und Maronen.jpg|right|upright=1.09|thumb|16–17th century still life with roasted chestnuts by [[Georg Flegel]]]]

* In the film [[Literary adaptation|based on the novel]] by [[E. M. Forster]], ''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]'', Mrs. Ruth Wilcox ([[Vanessa Redgrave]]) tells of her childhood home, where superstitious farmers would place pigs' teeth in the bark of the chestnut trees and then chew on this bark to ease toothaches. In the novel, the tree is actually a [[Wych elm]].
* ''[[Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree]]'' is a set of variations, with fugue, for orchestra composed in 1939 by Jaromír Weinberger.
* In [[Honoré de Balzac]]'s novel ''[[Le Père Goriot|Père Goriot]]'', [[Vautrin]] states that [[Eugène de Rastignac]]'s family is living off chestnuts; this symbolism is used to represent how impoverished Eugene's family is.
* "[[The Christmas Song]]" famously mentions chestnuts in its opening line, and is commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire."

=== Notable specimens ===
* [[Hundred Horse Chestnut]] on [[Mount Etna]], 57.9&nbsp;m (190&nbsp;ft) circumference in 1780, (64-meter circumference in 1883)<ref name=rushton/><ref name=nytimesetna>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1883/01/20/106245772.pdf Chestnut tree on Mount Etna].</ref>
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/48028479@N00/128320486/ Tortworth Chestnut]. 15.8-meter (52&nbsp;ft) circumference in 1776, when it was described as "the largest tree in England"<ref name=atf>[http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/ancient-tree-forum/atfgallery/features.htm Ancient Tree Forum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218170833/http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/ancient-tree-forum/atfgallery/features.htm |date=December 18, 2008 }}. ''Ancient Tree Forum''. [[Woodland Trust]].</ref>
* Sacred Chestnut of [[Istán]], {{convert|46|ft|m|adj=on}} circumference, estimated to be between 800 and 1,000 years old.<ref name=istan>[http://www.istan.es/pagina.asp?cod=298&idioma=ing Sacred Chestnut of Istan] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616165133/http://www.istan.es/pagina.asp?cod=298&idioma=ing |date=June 16, 2013 }}.</ref>