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Chestnut Pictures
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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.
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American chestnuts still in the bur. Taken by Professor Joe Schibig of Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN.
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Closeup of American chestnuts after shucking: shows the characteristic pubescence of the American species. Photo provided by Paul Sisco.
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Stem from a Chinese chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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Stem from an American chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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A surviving 85-foot American chestnut tree in Atkinson, Maine.
Photo courtesy of Eric Evans of the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.
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Chestnut leaves along Cove Mountain Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Photo provided by Paul Sisco
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Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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Tree at West Salem. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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American Chestnut seedlings being grown at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Leaves are all pendant.
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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
pendant leaves.
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Chestnut seedling in a pot. Shows the beautiful wine-color of new leaves.
Photo provided by Paul Sisco
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Robert's Cove. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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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.
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Lethal Canker. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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Small OFT. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
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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.
Oak Pictures
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Northern red oak. Photo provided by John Carlson
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Northern red oak. Photo provided by John Carlson
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The largest Bur Oak in South Carolina, located at Clemson University. Photo provided by Stephen Ficklin
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The large, old White Oak tree from Penn State Arboretum that was sampled for this project.
Photo provided by John E. Carlson.
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Haiying Liang doing the collecting from the large, old White Oak tree from Penn State Arboretum.
Photo provided by John E. Carlson.