All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful. "And ...

The Cape chestnut is a small to medium-sized growing tree native to the Cape region of South Africa. It is a member of the ...

Your plant those nuts, you grow them up into trees that are 5 to 6 years, and they begin to flower, and you take flowers from those trees, and you back across to pure American,” Double said.

Hana Wood, left, pollinates flowers on an American chestnut tree, while Linda McGuigan records data in July at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry's research ...

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

“In particular, we will be studying how trees grow and interact with their environment as they mature, and looking at flowering and cross-pollination to better inform restoration plans.” The BRAG team ...

When do we get to eat the chestnuts? Experts say they are tastier than the Asian and European nuts we import. My family spent the last months of 2011 in Lyon, France. As my husband lectured at the ...

The chestnut is a good fit for this effort, researchers say, because the tree’s historical range overlaps “almost perfectly” with the terrain covered by former coal mines that stretched ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Imagine no more roasting chestnuts on an open fire. What was once one of the most dominant trees in America has been dying off. The American chestnut tree was nearly gone ...

Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.