CHESTNUT TREES FACE DESTRUCTION; Trees Worth Millions Dying in This State from a Canker for Which There Is No Remedy. EATS BENEATH THE BARK Sprays and Other Attempts to Check Spread of the ...

Other trees, such as birches, beech, shagbark hickory and chestnut oak are among the few that are relatively easy to identify by their bark, and therefore seem like old friends when encountered ...

Deep dive: Saving the American chestnut tree offers a tale of hope in dark times. ... chemicals in the Chinese trees’ bark counter the acid cankers by creating a sort of scab around the injury.

A century ago, a blight almost eliminated the American Chestnut tree species, once one of the most prolific in the nation. Now, researchers believe they are close to saving the species.

The fungus enters through injuries in the tree's bark, spreads to the inner layers and blocks the flow of nutrients through the tree, eventually killing it. Jacobs said the disease first appeared in ...

In America as in Europe, the chestnut was the "bread tree," providing a staple that could be boiled and mashed to replace potato as a starch, ground into flour to make noodles or bread (a favorite ...

I do not remember chestnut trees in their full healthy glory. But I do remember their long dying in the 1920s and 30s. In those days, our farm in Leicester was isolated, surrounded by woods.

A chestnut tree hybrid resisting blight infection by walling off. ... Chestnut Foundation, points to a gangly, thin chestnut tree just about 2 feet tall with a section of scraped off bark. ...

Around four billion giant American chestnut trees’ cambium was affected by a fungus in 1904, and almost all died, according to “Inside the American Chestnut Tree’s Comeback Story,” a Nice ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech ...

T he Asian chestnut trees were exotic, and American consumers loved them. They had no idea they were planting a Trojan horse. Embedded in its genome was a lethal fungus, cryphonectria parasitica, ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech ...