American Chestnut

Castanea dentata

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The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, is a large, monoecious deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America. Before the species was devastated by the chestnut blight, a fungal disease, it was one of the most important forest trees throughout its range. There are now very few mature specimens of the tree within its historical range, although many small sprouts of the former live trees remain. However, there are hundreds of large (2 to...

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  1. (c) Bob MacInnes, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/60274407@N00/1352053806
  2. (c) Wikipedia, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castanea_dentata

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