One day Americans may even have enough chestnuts to use as stuffing in their Christmas turkey. As in New Zealand, pollination and postharvest diseases are concerns. However, one advantage of many US chestnut selections over New Zealand's is that, having Castanea mollissima in their parentage, they are often much easier to peel and have little pellicle adhesion. By 2001, production is expected to reach 3,600 t, all sold locally. Much Australian chestnut production is concentrated in the state of Victoria, where there are sometimes serious disease and storage problems, and many of the older, inferior chestnut selections are now being topworked with newer material.
Newer chestnut producing countries, of which little is know, include Chile and Argentina.
No doubt there are more, as chestnuts have been reported growing at higher elevations in such seemingly unlikely places as India and the Philippines.