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  • From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: One lonely chestnut tree
  • Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 15:27:33 -0800 (PST)

> I have seen a few chestnut trees in
> WVa.  They sprout up six of seven
> feet and then die back to to the stump and then repeat this
> growth
> pattern.

That sounds like a symptom of the dread chestnut blight. Are these native
chestnuts?

> Maybe you are looking at a horse
> chestnut.  Do you know
> what a real chestnut tree looks like?

The burrs look unmistakably different. Horse chestnuts look like they know
they hardly need to make any effort to keep out squirrels, while real
chestnuts work hard at this.

Melissa
Enjoying hickory nuts from my neighbor's trees. (He gave me a big bag of
them.)








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