American Chestnut

Description:

Chestnut blight has infected a huge amount of Chestnut trees in the U.S., unfortunately leading to a decrease in population and in truly pure American Chestnut trees. This property has a few large chestnut trees not infected with chestnut blight that have not been backcrossed with other genes to resist the blight. Many of the other American Chestnuts are now actually more like 15/16 American Chestnuts and 1/16 of other chestnut genes so that they have a better chance of resisting chestnut blight. The last photo shows a young tree that we found that unfortunately already has blight.

Habitat:

Forest with lots of white pine, red spruce, birch, highbush blueberry, and plenty of mosses and other plants.

Notes:

The trees were too dense to get a photo of the full tree, so my apologies there. However, based on the leaves and the chestnuts you can identify these trees even without seeing the bark