Trees With Clustered Needles If the needles are bunched together, you can assume the tree is either pine or larch ... and attached to the twig with leaf stalks. While cone sizes vary, they ...

A typical American chestnut has a thin, canoe-shaped leaf with a dull leaf surface ... that could be chestnuts using this handy chestnut tree identification guide. Or send in a sample to a local ...

The mission of the American Chestnut ... other important tree species such as Dutch-elm disease and elm yellows (which devastated another American heritage tree, the American elm, Ulmus americana) and ...

American chestnut tree leaves and nuts ... you can send in leaf and twig samples for identification.

Identification Tips: Ash trees have no nuts but clusters of slender seeds with a long wing. There will be no nut husks under the tree. Check for an opposite leaf arrangement to eliminate ...

The scars are a useful tool for winter tree identification, said Dr. Alvarez, who admits that she and Dr. Day “get obsessive over leaf-scar photos.” Dr. Day explained: “You learn to look at ...

You can make a tax-deductible donation to ESF to support research and development by the chestnut project. You can also plant wild-type (non-transgenic) American chestnuts and participate in our tree ...

Her husband and daughter were also home when the chestnut tree in their side yard — last measured at 85 feet tall, with a diameter of 4.5 feet — toppled, flattening the family’s Mini Cooper ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup ...