Chestnut trees freely hybridize, and other hybrid varieties exist. Hybrid trees often have traits that are associated with the non-American parent. This can be useful in agricultural and horticultural ...

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 USDA, when it was evident that Pennsylvania’s methods weren’t working, sent researchers to Asia to study chestnut varieties there. Fitzsimmons said Chinese chestnut trees are fairly common ...

Some have suggested that it would be better just to let the American chestnut tree vanish. Our forests, they say, can repopulate with Asian varieties of the tree that are more adapted to the ...

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can ... This allows them to more rapidly screen varieties for blight resistance to further their efforts. One approach is based on conventional ...

East Asian varieties, like those that introduced the ... the edible chestnuts for fall and winter snacking. Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they’re culturally ...