Dwarf chestnut oaks grow to a maximum height of about ... have a height of around 15 feet. Chaste trees bloom with lavender flowers in the fall and grow to about 10 feet in height.
In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard.
While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...
Plant tissue culture (also known as micropropagation ... gene constructs have been regenerated into whole plants. As of the fall of 2013, we have planted 1275 transgenic chestnut trees at eight sites ...
Chestnut officials say they foresaw potential problems and, before the sale was concluded in the fall ... planting wouldn't work. "If participation in the carbon program entails planting trees ...
Johsens also needs to clear more ground and plant more trees as the number ... to make kuri gohan, or chestnut rice, a traditional Japanese dish usually eaten in the fall. To keep these customers ...