OldBat
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I can tell you where one is that produces a few chestnuts most years, it isn't very tall, cause it's on the very top of a mtn. If you go to brasstown bald, take the trail toward trackrock gap, just before you get to chimney rock, ther is one above the trail, go in late october and you will sometimes see some chestnuts in the trail, tree is hard to find otherwise, I found a stand in clay co. nc, only thing is when they get about 10-12" in diameter, they die, the root systems are still there in some cases, they just can't get started back.
Hi, interesting thread! BTW I'm new here...
Just want to point out that the American Chestnut Foundation is well aware of the few surviving chestnut trees on Brasstown Bald. (I helped gather pollen there two summers ago...) They might not be aware of the ones in Clay county North Carolina. If these are on restricted access private land, please consider contacting them so they can add these survivors to the restoration projects gene pool.
The final cross in the quest for blight resistant 15/16th American chestnuts needs to be from near where they will be planted back. Kind of pointless to develop a blight resistant chestnut from Maine and plant it in Georgia.