{"product_id":"chataignier-ordinaire-affiche-botanique-50x70cm","title":"Common Chestnut - Botanical poster 50x70cm","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eCastanea vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e, Sweet Chestnut\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sweet chestnut once graced the woods of Montmorency and Meudon with its majestic stature\u003c\/strong\u003e, the elegance of its leaves, and its long spikes of yellowish flowers that bloomed in mid-July, despite their not-so-pleasant scent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Parisian climate, \u003cstrong\u003eits fruits ripened in October and November\u003c\/strong\u003e, encased in their famous spiny husk which opened at the first frosts to release two or three chestnuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoiteau slyly notes that these fruits, reserved for children and wild animals, always found takers despite their defensive prickles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSweet chestnut flowers, axillary and rarely terminal, emerge with the year's growth\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIts fruit ripens late\u003c\/strong\u003e: in cold autumns, the husk sometimes falls closed, its chestnuts still trapped inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe following spring, \u003cstrong\u003earound April, the flesh of the chestnuts undergoes a natural fermentation that makes it sweeter\u003c\/strong\u003e before losing its taste qualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf Lyon marron varieties are grafted onto the common sweet chestnut, larger chestnuts are obtained, but never true marrons, whose storage was located in Limours, seven leagues from Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe tree grows faster than the oak and resembles it in its wood when young\u003c\/strong\u003e, but after fifty or sixty years, its woody layers easily exfoliate, making it unsuitable for large timber framing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFortunately, \u003cstrong\u003ethe sweet chestnut thrives in the most ungrateful soils: sterile sands, uncultivable slopes\u003c\/strong\u003e. Cultivated as coppice, cut every ten or twenty years for barrel hoops, vine stakes, or light frameworks, it constitutes a valuable resource.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis plate is taken from Pierre-Antoine Poiteau and Pierre Jean François Turpin's \u003cem\u003eTraité des Arbres Fruitiers\u003c\/em\u003e (Treatise on Fruit Trees), a botanical encyclopedia published between 1807 and 1835, a major reference in 19th-century naturalistic illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt combines the rigor of scientific drawing with a rare artistic sensibility, characteristic of the great plates from the golden age of illustrated botany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinting, support, shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003eEach poster is printed using \u003cb\u003e12-color giclée printing\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ethe benchmark for art studios\u003c\/b\u003e for rendering fine tones, subtle gradients, and the most delicate botanical details.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e200 gsm paper, soft matte finish, 0.26 mm thick: \u003cb\u003ea result close to the original engraving\u003c\/b\u003e, clear, non-reflective, designed for hanging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on \u003cb\u003eFSC-certified paper\u003c\/b\u003e, individually printed to order.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eShipped in a rigid protective tube\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Poiteau Botaniste","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58197182873984,"sku":"18c2089c-06a4-4953-8d3f-57eede65d680","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/3356\/7360\/files\/917e7121-8787-4e0a-bbfb-e0e24ccbf6ca.jpg?v=1780430727","url":"https:\/\/shop.poiteau-botaniste.com\/en\/products\/chataignier-ordinaire-affiche-botanique-50x70cm","provider":"Shop Poiteau Botaniste","version":"1.0","type":"link"}