American Chestnut

Description

Cultural Information: 

Chestnuts can grow just about anywhere with the exception of extremely wet soils or on limestone.  Our seed sources are from small trees in central Ohio and western Pennsylvania.  

Associated Species: ^[6]

Chestnut Oak, Sweet Birch, Black Oak, Tuliptree, Red Maple, Red Oak and White Oak.

Field Observations:

Nothing more than stump sprouts remain of the species once regarded as the “queen of the forest”.  We grow it for sentimental reasons: maybe one of our seeds will be the one that has the genetics to beat the fungus that nearly obliterated it from its former extensive range.