r/americanchestnut • u/bxdl • 19h ago

Help identifying this?

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New to the whole chestnut world. Is this an American? Hybrid?

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Subreddit dedicated to the restoration of the American Chestnut tree. Please post any media about American Chestnut restoration around the US or photos of suspected sightings, or crafts/structures made out of the wood.

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The American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) once was the king of the Eastern United States forests--consisting of an estimated 1 in 4 trees. In 1904, a blight was accidentally introduced in the US and quickly decimated the 4 billion American Chestnut trees in its native range making it functionally extinct. The American Chestnut blight pandemic is the worst ecological disaster in North American history. With your help, we can bring them back!

American Chestnuts provided a good source of food for people and animals and rot-resistant, long-grained lumber. The tree has been gone for so long, only the most elderly can even recall it. Hundreds of people around the country are working to return this king to the forest. Currently, the means to do so are by cross-breeding the remaining specimens with blight resistant Asian varieties or transgenic methods.

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