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 ...

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 ...

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

The chestnut blight arrived in the late 1800s, when Americans seeking to introduce a chestnut tree with larger nuts ... crowd out other species. Beech leaf disease takes out the trunks before ...

It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch. Several of the Garden’s horse chestnuts show signs of this same disease. This year’s ...

State Botanist Bill McAvoy confirmed the tree was indeed an American chestnut ... you can send in leaf and twig samples for identification.