Si tratta di un albero solitario, circondato da querce e faggi, con circa 60 anni di vita, senza segni apparenti di cancro o altre cicatrici. Nessun altro castagno nel raggio di un kilometro.
Large American chestnut tree discovered by Parker Veitch in the Maine mountains. Great discovery!
45 inch circumference at chest height, no cankers or wounds visible, around 60 years old, well drained mountain side, shaded by a large eastern hemlock - majority of surrounding woods is oak and beech , seeds are not viable - hundreds of husks on the ground, grew from a seed (oppose to a stump sprout), and closest chestnut tree is roughly 1/2 a mile away.
For more info: The American Chestnut Ass. inc.
