On average, the chestnut trees in the plantation grew to 6.4 meters in height, while black walnuts and northern red oaks only grew to 4.4 and 3.6 meters, respectively, in the same time period. "This ...

The impetus to resurrect the tree came from a group of chestnut enthusiasts — of European descent — who saw it as an important piece of U.S. heritage. They formed the American Chestnut ...

The chestnut is treasured as a near-lost mountain icon. Once, though, it was a tree of South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.

Chestnut trees stripped of bark were a common sight 80 years ago. They had a light color, so they stood out in the woods like so many gigantic ghosts among the maples, birches, oaks and ash.

Duke Farms researchers are keeping track of about 270 chestnut trees — a mix of hybrids, the American chestnut and its Chinese counterpart — that are growing in a forested area of the late ...

The American chestnut grew best at intermediate elevations (2,000 to 3,000 feet) on well-drained soils. Mature trees reached heights of over 100 feet with their topmost branches spreading out to ...

The 38-foot tall chestnut tree behind Rick and Jen Hartlieb’s Robesonia farmhouse has to fight for sunlight from a neighboring maple. Of all the chestnuts on their 12-acre farm, this hardy ...

The large chestnut trees that exist today were planted over 100 years ago, Gillis said. The tree is slowly becoming “extinct,” he said, which is why it’s important to help restore its numbers.

This American chestnut tree, photographed Nov. 11 at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, 662 N. Cemetery Road, North East, shows evidence of chestnut brown rot, top center ...

Now, American chestnut advocates, like Mann, and a small network of scientists are hoping to restore the trees by genetically engineering a blight-resistant tree.

James' trees arrived as hybrid seeds from the Chestnut Foundation. They are the products of backcross breeding, the cross-pollination of American and Chinese chestnuts that over generations ...