Trees are rapidly invading the great plains

[Audi_o_phile]

@Lucky_P

people finding solitary, isolated chestnuts, and thinking that they’ve found the ‘blight-resistant’ American chestnut that will revive the species to its former (largely imagined) prominence, are often dismayed to find that, in the vast majority of cases, that their special tree is a hybrid

I’ve come to recognize that the one I discovered in Virginia ago those years ago likely is nothing unique.

@Audi_o_phile

Outside of Saltville, Virginia was a chestnut tree that I assumed to be a native.