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Chinese chestnut) was imported for planting in ornamental gardens and nut orchards. These exotic trees were the hosts of a prolific fungus which spread throughout the American chestnut forests. The chestnut blight reached Virginia in the 1920’s, and destroyed virtually all mature native chestnuts.
Today the American chestnut exists only as small sprouts which rarely survive to reproductive age. Only one specimen is known in Rappahannock County which is still bearing fruit. Seeds will be collected from this tree for use in research programs in an attempt to develop a viable strain of chestnut.
HOPEFULLY, this strain will be resistant to the blight and able to compete with other trees in a natural forest environment.
This type of research is being carried out by the Virginia Division of Forestry, the U.S. Forest ■ ■■■■■ ■■■
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