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What Is This Tree?

June 17, 2014 by FHC

by Marjorie Rachlin

Hint: It’s not a native.

Chestnut tree blooms

Ten of these trees are blooming right now in Rock Creek Park on the east side of Ridge Road (the road south into the park at St. John’s school and Military Road).

This is a Chinese chestnut, native to China and Korea. All of our native chestnuts were killed off by a blight, but the Chinese species is resistant.

Chestnut trees

In the fall it will drop green spiky balls about the size of a tennis ball, just like our native chestnut. This is the seedpod that contains the chestnuts. Asian Americans prize them, and you’ll see a lot of people collecting come September. (I tried it, but the chestnuts were wormy.)

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Comments

  1. Bob Summersgill says

    June 18, 2014 at 10:21 am

    Not all of the American Chestnut trees were killed by the blight. Read about the efforts of the American Chestnut Foundation to save and restore them. http://www.acf.org/

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