The American chestnut (Castanea dentata ... As with all chestnuts, the flowers are tiny and inconspicuous, without any petals ...

The American chestnut, today, is considered “functionally extinct.” Tall, mature American chestnuts that still produce flowers, and possibly reproduce, are rare and studied intensely.

“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to ...

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 ...

American chestnut once dominated nearly 200 million acres of land in the eastern Appalachian forests of the United States.

The past year has been full of challenges and important progress for ESF’s American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project. As most of you know, project co-founders Dr. William Powell and Dr.

The American Chestnut tree, once known as the “Redwood of the East,” faced this grim reality in the early 20th century. But ...