No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at 68 sites in 26 West Virginia counties, though there are also native ...

The Tree Talks Lecture Series, sponsored by the Elkins Tree Board and Kump Education Center, Elkins, continues tonight at 7 p ...

Next we will start “diluting” the American chestnut characteristics through breeding to obtain a plant that is mostly Ozark chinquapin. This summer, we moved one step closer to our goal: we crossed ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...