American Chestnut
(Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkhaussen)
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, sharp-pointed at the tip and toothed on the margins; smooth on both upper and lower sides, 6"-11" long.
AMERICAN CHESTNUT
Castanea dentata
General Notes
Susceptible to chestnut blight, which essentially eradicated the tree in its native stands. Very few trees exist today. Unpleasant, Pollen Fragrance. SelecTree lists no cultivars of dentata.
American Chestnut, once a mighty hardwood tree prized for its wood and sweet-kerneled nuts, is now primarily reduced to rare stump sprouts, due to the presence of the lethal fungus Endothia parasitica (Chestnut Blight, ...
Castanea dentata, American Chestnut
Celtis occidentalis, Hackberry
Fraxinus americana, White Ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash
Fraxinus nigra, Black Ash
Magnolia spp., Magnolias
Quercus alba, White Oak
Quercus macrocarpa, Bur Oak ...
Stand of unblighted American chestnuts discovered
California front yard stolen
Sudden Oak Death didn't come from the US ...
Spanish chestnut is susceptible to chestnut blight, the devastating fungus disease that was introduced into North America from Asia around 1900 and within 40 years had killed every mature American chestnut (C. dentata) on the continent.
Chestnut blight was first described in the Bronx Zoo in 1904 but had probably been killing American chestnut trees in scattered pockets across the eastern seaboard for several years prior to that date.
The Chinese chestnut is the only chestnut that is reasonably adapted to portions of Texas. This tree is tolerant to the chestnut blight that has killed most native American chestnuts throughout the eastern and central United States.
Castanea dentata [American Chestnut] Common Name List
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 See also: Chestnut, Green, May, Chinese Chestnut, Oak
  
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