A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can ... breeding techniques and has been crossing blight and PRR-resistant Chinese chestnuts with the American type. PRR resistance has been ...

No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

At present the Chinese have a total crop of 1.8 million tonnes, but this is expected to climb to over two million tonnes this year. 9. The oldest chestnut tree in the world grows on an active ...