Photo Gallery

Team Members

  • Team members and visitors in attendance at the NSF meeting at CAES on May 9th, 2008.

Chestnut Pictures

  • Chestnut flowers in bloom, taken at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts. Photo by Brad Smith, President of the Massachusetts Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.
  • American chestnuts still in the bur. Taken by Professor Joe Schibig of Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN.
  • Closeup of American chestnuts after shucking: shows the characteristic pubescence of the American species. Photo provided by Paul Sisco.Click here for more info.
  • Stem from a Chinese chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • Stem from an American chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • A surviving 85-foot American chestnut tree in Atkinson, Maine. Photo courtesy of Eric Evans of the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.
  • Chestnut leaves along Cove Mountain Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo provided by Paul Sisco
  • Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • Tree at West Salem. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • American Chestnut seedlings being grown at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Leaves are all pendant.
  • Chestnut seedlings being grown at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. F2s from a cross of American and Chinese Chestnut on the left, Mahogany X Nanking Chinese chestnut cross on the right. The Chinese cross progeny have leaves that are staight out while the mixed progeny have a combination of straight out and endant leaves.
  • Chestnut seedling in a pot. Shows the beautiful wine-color of new leaves. Photo provided by Paul Sisco
  • Robert's Cove. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • American chestnut tree photographed in Hampton, CT in 1905.*Tree was 83 ft tall, 27 inches dbh and 103 years old. Tree yielded 662 board feet of lumber.
  • Lethal Canker. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • Small OFT. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
  • Big Ugly. Photo provided by Fred Hebard

* Austin F. Hawes, 'Chestnut in Connecticut and the Improvement of the Woodlot.' Bulletin 154, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT, Sept. 1906, 41 pp.