Identify please.

[BostonBull]

I am pretty sure this is some type of chestnut. I think it is an American. Can someone please tell me what it is? Is it maybe a chinese?

More pics to follow.

 

[BostonBull]

Heres some more pics

 

[begleytree]

Looks like european chestnut from here.
-Ralph

 

[BostonBull]

I should have mentioned this before we are zone 5-6, or from Arbordays standpoint 6-7.

 

[begleytree]

the american were virtually wiped out by the blight. any suckers found are collected to attempt to find a resistant strain.
european tend to be mulit-leadered, and short
while (oops) chineese tend to single-stem and get a little taller
Neither are like the 100-120' giants that the american chestnuts once were, and neither have any commercial value as timber
-Ralph
edit: goof

 

[maxburton]

Castanea mollissima, Chinese Chestnut.

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=23

 

[treeseer]

good old va tech.

Yeah I got one of those in my yard, not a bad little tree; nuts not real tasty tho. maybe I need to roast em over an open fire...:rockn:

 

[BostonBull]

This one was short, mlti leadered, stocky trunk. I am going to say Chinese?

 

[begleytree]

This one was short, mlti leadered, stocky trunk. I am going to say Chinese?

that fits european around here.
could just be the difference in nurserys, and their idea of what it should look like
-Ralph

 

[Doctor Dave]

the american were virtually wiped out by the blight. any suckers found are collected to attempt to find a resistant strain.
european tend to be mulit-leadered, and short
while (oops) chineese tend to single-stem and get a little taller
Neither are like the 100-120' giants that the american chestnuts once were, and neither have any commercial value as timber
-Ralph
edit: goof

There are a few patches of resistant trees in the East, but what no one talks about is the PNW. American Chestnuts were brought out there for ornamental use and possibly for the nuts, long ago, and the blight never got out here.

The two largest are in WA state--both over 6 ft. diameter.
I personally have seen about 100 saplings in the Wind River Arboretum near Carson, WA. They don't get very big there because of the local climate (heavy snow and summer drought). The second biggest in the country is not too far away, in Carson, but lower elevation and in a yard, where it has probably been watered. The largest is in Cicero, WA. Both of these trees are open grown, with short single trunks and wide crowns, and are around 100 ft. tall.

 

[OTG BOSTON]

the american were virtually wiped out by the blight. any suckers found are collected to attempt to find a resistant strain.
european tend to be mulit-leadered, and short
while (oops) chineese tend to single-stem and get a little taller
Neither are like the 100-120' giants that the american chestnuts once were, and neither have any commercial value as timber
-Ralph
edit: goof

The American Chestnut still exists in the wilds of Boston???

On State property in the neighborhood of Hyde Park. The ones at this location are about 15 years or older and completely wild.

This is still a far cry from the days of Chestnut forests all over the East Coast.

 

[woodville]

The American Chestnut still exists in the wilds of Boston???

On State property in the neighborhood of Hyde Park. The ones at this location are about 15 years or older and completely wild.

This is still a far cry from the days of Chestnut forests all over the East Coast.

Yup, all over the place. Look just about anywere and you"ll find stumps with suckers 4 to 24 feet high. Then boom blight takes it's toll and the cycle starts all over again. I know of a good size one the chestnut society I think was playing around with for a while in Westwood just off 128 and a few good size ones out around Wachusett Res.