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12 hours ago

We've prepared a completely legitimate and highly scientific quiz.

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🌱 Chestnut Curious
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6 days ago

Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.

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1 week ago

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.

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2 weeks ago

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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