Brucemore's Chinese ... chestnut worth noting is standing among younger chestnut specimens. Due to this particular tree's location in the area of the first orchard as well as its apparent age ...

Burnham theorized that if a blight resistant tree could be bred between the American and Chinese lines ... covered in clusters of chestnut trees, grouped by family and age. Each group begins ...

Want to get started growing American Chestnut ... age — typically about their fourth year. My largest and quickest-to-bear tree, now 12 years old, was actually grown by planting a Chinese ...

Dalgleish lists the virtues of the species: They grow more quickly than oaks, for starters, and can reproduce at an earlier age ... a tree that has 94 percent American genes. “It looks like an ...

If restoration is successful, it’ll bring back a tree unlike any other—versatile ... “just about every chromosome” in the Chinese chestnut genome, Collins told me, making it difficult ...

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut ... a tree that could fight off the fungus or live longer with it, scientists have been crossbreeding American chestnuts with Chinese ...

Three different times people have mowed over my chestnut tree and yet it does come back. I asked my friend for some photos of the Chinese chestnuts he has been harvesting from his yard.