The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was ... to decay and is one of the best woods for steam bending. Chestnut oak, however, is considered a poor lumber species.

which has devastated the once grand American chestnut. *Oak trees --More than 30 species of oak can be grown in Nebraska. Though few produce nuts (acorns) suitable for human consumption ...

Healthy trees lived for 400 to 600 years, producing several bushels of nuts ... to species of trees closely related to the chestnut, such as oaks. "If this fungus proves pathogenic to oak, it ...

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

Parking near the base, I came upon an experimental planting of American chestnut trees ... such a mature tree would produce a crop of several thousand tasty nuts. The species also offered timber ...

These oak tree nuts ... chestnut oak, northern red oak, black oak, white oak, pin oak, willow oak, southern red oak Virginia Department of Forestry For most outdoorsmen and women, identifying an oak ...

“Chestnut trees were the dominant tree nut species — some estimates were that one of every four trees was a chestnut,” Judd said. “And then, around the turn of the 1900s, a blight came in ...

One was a pathogenic fungus called Cryphonectria parasitica, or chestnut blight. It lay quietly in the Asian trees whose native immunity concealed its threat, but the North American species was ...