Links Mailing Lists It is glossy and heavier than American leaves.This is a large Chinese tree in Boston, Kentucky, one of two trees in the old cemetery.Almost all the chestnut trees in Louisville currently are Chinese chestnuts, including a large collection at Cave Hill Cemetery, and several groupings at Bernheim. Leaves to be examined should be fully expanded, from parts of the tree exposed to full sun and not from within 15 cm of flowers.
Castanea is the botanical name of the chestnut family. Michaux State Forest AT MEGA Transect Data Files
2012 Chestnut Summit Identifying American Chestnut Trees. Newsletters
Field Trips Overview Identification of Chestnut (Castanea) Species - Dichotomous Key There were previous examples of European chestnuts (C. sativa) at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens, but these were heavily blighted and have been removed.
USDA CSREES Northeast Regional Projects - Chestnut Overview Restoration Meetings Georgia Chapter Newsletters Meetings Overview They are covered with burs.glossy brown, as long as it is wide (rounded)3 mm, downy dark red, pointed, longer than wide, sticks out from stemTree Identification Pictures For Email RevThe American Chestnut Foundation identification pagesslender, smooth, hairless, reddish brown, small white lenticelsBe aware that all chestnuts can cross-pollinate, so that the chestnut you are trying to identify may actually be a mix of two or more different types of chestnuts, known as a hybrid.Once you have decided that you have a Chestnut, the second step in deciding if your tree is American chestnut is to distinguish whether it is pure American, or if it has some non-American chestnut parentage.Over the past hundred years or so, European, Chinese, and Japanese chestnut trees as well as hybrids have been planted in the natural range of American chestnut, so remote location is not necessarily a guide to a tree’s parentage.The KY American Chestnut Tree ID 7 2 page 2012many small dots, sun leaves not hairy, long sparse hairs only on midriblong 6 mm, smooth, reddish brown, pointed or longer than it is wide, sticks out from stemhairy tips, tan to pea green, large elliptical yellow lenticelsBut fortunately, each species of chestnut as a pure species has a definite kind of glandular hair on the back of the leaf than can be seen with a good dissecting scope.
USDA CSREES Northeast Regional Projects - Chestnut
Their mature heights vary from the smallest species of chinkapins, often shrubby, to the giant of past American forests, C. dentata that could reach 60 m. Between these extremes are found the Japanese chestnut (C. crenata) at 10 m average; followed by the Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) at about 15 m, then the European chestnut (C. sativa) around 30 m.
Development / Business Plan Workshop
Newsletters Overview Restoration of American Chestnut to Forest Lands by R.H. Zander of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.ACCF Guide to Identifying American Chestnut
Mid-Atlantic Forms Overview Field Trips
Projects Growers Certification Workshops
Identifying Chestnut trees in the woods (Spring)
CGA 2020 Alabama Chapter Newsletters
The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a large, monoecious deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America. dentataBase Overview
Conference Proceedings
Visitors & Public