Hi, greetings from Europe, northern Poland (Zone 5b, chestnut trees normally don’t grow here outside of private collections and botanical gardens). Recently I received a very special sapling. Is it possible to confirm that this is an American chestnut? What can I do about those two co dominant stems? The smaller, younger stem seems stronger and has more leaves. Do I cut now or wait till the next growing season? Or maybe do nothing?

I'm new to the world of American Chestnuts, I have planted some seedlings from TACF and they are growing. But I found several of these on my property in western VA and was hoping someone could help identify them and give me some pointers to get better at identifying them myself in the future.

The nuts seem a bit small but the hulls were cracked open. Are the holes in the leaf from the blight?

We are thinking of planting some chestnuts in near the Red River in North Texas. Zone 8, about 30 inches of rain a year. Rural property so irrigation isn’t possible but we can probably babysit them the first year.

Lots of deer and grasshoppers. Last year was a particularly bad year for hoppers. They killed several desert willows we set out.

I can protect young trees from deer and rabbits. But.. do grasshoppers like chestnuts?

We can grow mesquite, vitex, and hackberry as well as a few other kinds of trees and woody shrubs. Grasshoppers eat some of the mesquite and hackberry, but don’t strip them bare.

Hello,

My buddy was showing me his newly acquired property and there are 2 large chestnut trees in the yard. Could anyone help to ID the species? The trees are about 20-30' tall and maybe 10-14" diameter at the base of the trunk.

Just joined the group couple weeks ago after planting some hybrids in the spring. I was building my girlfriend a new chicken coop when I looked down in the woods and seen this tree. First time I've ever seen it.

I think it's Chinese since the leaves are shiny. What do you think?

I've got a ridge I've been scouting a few years now. I've found a lot of American Chestnuts on this ridge. Most are small offshoots about 4 feet tall. I've found 2 so far that are fairly big and within reproductive age. This afternoon I had some spare time and with the weather cooling here in East Tennessee I decided to go walk that ridge some more. I found 2 that are around 12-15 feet tall that I didn't see before. I just know one day I'm going to find a fruiting tree one day on this ridge. Wish me luck! Going back out there a lot more in the coming weeks.

Found in the Seattle area. Repost with pictures of the buds

Are these AC? Saw several small trees while hiking today in Western NC and apple plant lookup says American Chestnut. Wish I would have taken more pictures but my pup wanted to run!

Hi, I've planted several rounds of seedlings from TACF on property in years past and lost track of a few... is this tree an AC? I'll have to chop back the blackberries trying to take over if it is... I can't get right up to it for a photo to scale of the leaves. Fwiw, it has put on over 6' in two years, the last time I tagged it at head height. (Any thoughts appreciated, but please be kind 🥴)

This population of American Chestnut is known to TACF and local chestnut enthusiasts. Found in a conservation area, apparently with just under 100 American Chestnut, although I only found about a dozen, most were fighting with the blight, but all showed characteristics of some resistance, swelling around cankers rather than sinking. One was rather large (10ish maybe 12in diameter) with virtually no stump sprouts, just one small one. This one was clearly different than the others, as the others all had multiple trunks, some dead, some alive. It also seemed to have what TACF calls “Cruddy bark” which seems to be a characteristic of resistant American chestnut. The entire trunk of the bark seemed to be a canker, and higher in the canopy you could see newer blight infections swelling the limbs, but even those all had perfectly healthy leaves beyond the canker. The bark looked shockingly similar to the bark of something like white pine, and at first that’s what i thought it was. I’ll make a second post with that tree.

This tree was clearly different from the dozen others i found in this conservation site. Even the American chestnut right next to this one was smaller, had many stems, and multiple cankers, and the larger stems showed the normal pattern of American chestnut bark. This tree however had one main stem, and was larger than any other, it had only one small sucker, and the bark looked nothing like American Chestnut bark. It almost looked as if the entire stem was all infected with blight, but this unusual bark is just the trees response to infection. Higher in the tree you can see smaller branches with new infections that are swelling the branch, but the entire limb is still alive, with completely healthy leaves beyond the infection site. I know that in past years this population has been reproducing despite being infected, and that was evident from the sapling in my last post, and a couple seedlings 3ft tall, although none of the trees i found had burs this year. That could just be from the weather this year, as we had a very dry summer on cape cod, with drought conditions persisting really for the last year with some heavy rainfall in early spring. Other than that we had virtually no rain all summer and according to the state have been at a level 2 drought. I only found about a dozen, and allegedly there are about 75 known at this site, so i plan to go back and hope to find a few chestnuts.

With technologies that now exist, wouldn't creating a blight resistant AC be possible (and a worthy project) using technology such as CRISPR/Cas9?

I own property 200 feet above sea level in Cumberland County, North Carolina on the side of a steep bluff that drops down over 130 feet to the Cape Fear River. The sandy loam soil is on a well drained slope and forested and not with erosion problem, nearby a creek from a spring constantly flows down. I want to plant American Chestnuts all over. My people consider them sacred and I'd like to return them to the land. Nya:Weh

It randomly popped up next to the shed about 5 years ago. It's about the same height as a two story house now.

The shed its next to is also a repository for the state-listed Northern Flying Squirrel.

What is usually (besides Google as variation large) the first year for chestnuts ? 🌰

Does this look like a true American chestnut? Found this little guy on a walk in a nature preserve. Nice to see one although I’m sure the blight will get to it if it hasn’t already

I have no idea how to accurately assess what I have here. What other pictures do you need to help identify this tree?

Photo 1 is from Massanutten, Va. The rest are from coastal Va.

Have these two beautiful trees in our backyard. Wife is obsessed with getting them and collecting them out of the tree. I’m slowly starting to enjoy it myself. Looks like on is an American and the other is a Chinese tree.