WSSC 2 – Research Orchard
This experimental research orchard was first planted in 2012.
Address:
Triadelphia Lake Rd., Sunshine, Montgomery Co.
Directions:
As a starting point, find your way to Sunshine, which is at the intersection of MD 650 (New Hampshire Ave,) and MD 97 (Georgia Ave). From Sunshine, go 1/2 mile north to a right turn on Triadelphia Lake Rd.
Contacts:
Ron Kuipers: MDTACF
Jim Benton: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Watershed Manager
Mark Grzeszkiewicz: Groundskeeper
Plantings:
The following trees were planted in 2012: 9 Carver Am x Sequinyi, 9 Carver Am x Henryi, 3 Haines x Carver Little Bennett, 1 Curtis x Stonefort, 1 Haines x Clopper, 1 Knapp?_ open , 1 SW 902 x Clopper, 3 Knapp 39 x Clopper, 1 Burton x Clopper, 1 Henryi x SL 828, 1 Knapp 39 x Carver Little Bennett, and 5 Henryi.
For the latest 2016 inventory and map of the trees at this orchard click here.
Location:
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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.
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American chestnuts produce separate male flowers and bisexual flowers on the same tree?! What a fascinating reproductive strategy for a species once dominant across eastern forests. 🌿
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I have had these on the farm for years
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From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.
Small Stem Assays involve inoculating young chestnut stems with the blight fungus and monitoring the resulting cankers, allowing researchers to assess how well different trees respond to infection.
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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.
I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!