While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...
encouraging public participation through the identification of rare remnant surviving chestnut trees, collecting and exchanging viable nuts, and establishing large restoration plantations throughout ...
nut is red-brown, bitter, glabrous, with a conspicuous scar. Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the ...