Q: What can you tell me about American and Chinese chestnut? A: American chestnut (genus Castanea, species dentate) is in the beech family. This tree was a plentiful species, providing 25 percent of ...

Thanks for the picture. It always helps in trying to decipher what a plant may be, especially when someone has an idea of what they think it might be. In this case you have not spied a golden rain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chestnuts, once a staple in the American kitchen, especially among indigenous people, have all but disappeared. Yet, there are ...

Chromosome satellite for both species (Chinese chestnut on the left, American chestnut on the right). Like all chromosomes, these are made of chromatin – a mix of DNA molecules and proteins. There are ...

I’ve always liked Chinese food, but I was never really a fan of Chinese water chestnuts … that is, until I grew my own and tasted them fresh. The tasteless white discs in cheap takeout are only a pale ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...