Bouche de Bétizac suits fertile, acidic, well-drained soils with enough room for a vigorous tree. We recommend it to growers seeking an early and abundant harvest of exceptionally large, attractive marrons. It shows good resistance to ink disease and chestnut gall wasp. Early budbreak increases spring frost risk, however, and a compatible pollinator is essential.
Bouche de Betizac
Price range: 35,00 € through 99,00 €
A very productive French hybrid chestnut variety producing extremely large nuts with excellent flavour and good storage.
Bouche de Bétizac Chestnut Tree is a famous French hybrid chestnut variety created by INRA in Corrèze in 1962. It results from a cross between ‘Bouche Rouge’ and CA04, a Castanea crenata selection.
This variety produces very large, matte brown nuts with good keeping qualities. Bouche de Bétizac is considered one of the best-flavoured hybrid chestnuts, combining large fruit size, good eating quality and strong productivity.
Like other Castanea sativa × Castanea crenata hybrids, Bouche de Bétizac is appreciated for its resistance to ink disease, a serious soil-borne disease that has affected European chestnut orchards since the 19th century.
The harvest takes place in October and the nuts store well after picking. Budbreak is early, but the variety is considered relatively tolerant of spring frost compared with many classic fruit trees.
Our Bouche de Bétizac chestnut trees are available in several forms, grafted either onto seedling chestnut rootstock or onto Marsol layering rootstock, the latter offering stronger resistance to soil-borne diseases.
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