FAN Tree Walk - August 2001

#8 - American Chestnut (Fifth Street between D & E Avenue)

 
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American Chestnut (58.0KB)American Chestnut:  Very few American Chestnut trees remain because of a blight which may have entered this country from China or Japan in the late 1880s. Truly magnificent in stature, it has interesting seed pods containing up to three nuts.  am_chestnut_leaves.jpg (14121 bytes)  am_chstnuts_burrs.jpg (25625 bytes)

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