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The American chestnut was once common in its Appalachian Mountain range and was a dominant species in the oak-chestnut forest region of its central and southern range. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] During the early to mid-20th century, American chestnut trees were devastated by chestnut blight , a fungal disease that came from Japanese chestnut trees that ...
Chestnut wood: Note the splitting at the top of the log. Chestnut is of the same family as oak, and likewise its wood contains many tannins. [38] This renders the wood very durable, [38] gives it excellent natural outdoor resistance, [38] [108] and saves the need for other protection treatment. It also corrodes iron slowly, although copper ...
Castanea pumila, commonly known as the Allegheny chinquapin, American chinquapin (from the Powhatan) or dwarf chestnut, is a species of chestnut native to the southeastern United States. The native range is from Massachusetts and New York to Maryland and extreme southern New Jersey and southeast Pennsylvania south to central Florida, west to ...
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, [1] [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous , synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree . [ 4 ]
Growth rings of Castanea sativa . The sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), also known as the Spanish chestnut or just chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia Minor, and widely cultivated throughout the temperate world.
Quercus montana, the chestnut oak, is a species of oak in the white oak group, Quercus sect. Quercus.It is native to the eastern United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, with an outlying northwestern population in southern Michigan.
Infection can be local in range, so some isolated American chestnuts survive where there is no other infected tree within 10 km (6.2 mi). Soil organisms at the root collar and root system of the chestnut tree are antagonistic to the fungus. Chestnut tree roots are resistant to blight infections.
Aesculus glabra, commonly known as Ohio buckeye, [2] Texas buckeye, [3] fetid buckeye, [3] and horse chestnut [3] is a species of tree in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to North America. Its natural range is primarily in the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the geological Black ...
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