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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:37 PM Original message |
The American Chestnut Returns |
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libnnc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. great news |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
2. Most of us learned some of this when we were kids... |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. here is another |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. I LOVE chestnut trees!! |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
4. four feet across or forty feet across? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 02:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's probably the diameter of the trunk. nt |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Ah, Makes sense. |
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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 02:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. must have meant 40. those trees were massive |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. Wonderful news, surviving specimens of the American Chestnut in several locations. |
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RTBerry (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
10. American x Chinese hybrid chestnuts are under-utilized |
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windoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. Great news. |
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MNBrewer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Agreed. I live in Dutch Elm Disease territory. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Westmont Borough in Pennsylvania has the longest set of Elm Lined Street |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. My brother and I each have one growing on our property. |
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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 05:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. thats when they all get the blight- before they fully mature |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I have always dreamed of a comeback. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:44 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. These "Hybrids" have produced seeds that grow into trees |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 04:54 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. OK thanks. |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
16. There were AMAZING trees: |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. we had those in Oregon . We would take the prickly seed pods and |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 11:51 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. They are one or two of them in Oregon |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:37 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. the park in the center of Central Point, my home town has dozens of them |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:16 AM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Chestnuts are considered quick growing trees. |
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suffragette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:36 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. We did that in Seattle, too, when we were kids. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 07:50 AM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Horse chestnut (conker) trees are another thing. They're in the buckeye family |
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suffragette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:24 AM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Ah, the memories those pics and your description gives me |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-19-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
18. Chestnut Trees ? |
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galledgoblin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
24. thank you for posting this |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 07:47 AM Response to Original message |
26. That's awesome! Good news as our Hemlocks are going fast. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
28. That takes me back. |
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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
29. Ok HEAD UP this is important INVOLVING THE ROOTS OF THE NETWORK |
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zippy890 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:26 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. our state taxes oing to some good use anyway AND |
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MBS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
30. nice story--thanks! n/t |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-20-08 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
31. just what we need...a tenfold increase in the squirrel population |
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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 06:11 AM Response to Original message |
34. Good News |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
35. What hopeful news! I've passed it on to gardening friends. Thanks for posting it! n/t |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
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