Heritage chestnut

Details Heritage chestnut Heritage chestnut

1987-04-13

1989-03-14

Feyrer, James R.

Plants

Rose

Climber

A01H 500

Patent

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PP0066745

ABSTRACT:
A tall, vigorous hybrid chestnut tree with very American chestnut-like characteristics, having a single, timber-form, upright, straight bole and a narrow branching habit, with large, elliptical and deeply dentate leaves and strongly scented flowers appearing in late spring after leafing out; the tree being a regular and light bearer of medium-sized, elongated, sweet nuts, the burrs splitting and many of the nuts falling free from the burr; the tree also exhibiting a high genetic resistance to the chestnut bark blight (Endothia parasitica), being a member of a group of hybrid chestnut trees that have not shown a single instance of infection in over 30 years of breeding and research, including passing inoculation tests without dying from infection, and the present variety itself not showing any instance of blight infection in 25 years of growth in the orchard.

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