Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What ...
Over the last 36 years, volunteers and TACF partners have been breeding blight-resistant Chinese chestnut trees with American ...
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Loon Echo Land Trust Stewardship Manager Jon Evans and Kim Colson, a volunteer with the American Chestnut Foundation in ...
From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...
The Chinese chestnut is resistant to the blight ... The national organization has created hundreds of chestnut trees with varying genetics but all nearly identical to the wild American chestnut.