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A number of young American Chestnuts grow on the Appalachian Trail at Rocky Gap. (Southbound from VA-601). None are very old or large enough to participate in the breeding program for the American Chestnut Foundation.

This American Chestnut grows behind my house. It sets seeds every year, but they appear to be sterile. The tree is about 20 feet tall and has a circumference of 9 inches at chest height and is not yet blighted.

Healthy tree covered in Chestnuts. Not that young, bark looked quite old. Beside a dam on Pattaconk Pond. The chestnuts were superbly camoflauged, the exact colour of the leaves and not visible until you were right up beside them. Very prickly.