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Spectacular floral displays are the hallmark of this shrub. The flowers are white or pinkish. They grow at the end of the stem. The flower stamens have a mechanism to eject pollen when tripped by a bee. If you look at the flowers with a magnifying glass, or look closely if you have good near vision, you will see the long filaments of the stamen bent over and latched into a tiny dimple in the flower. When a bee lights on the petal the spring is released and “whap,” the stamen zips out and snaps pollen all over the bee! You can use a small stick and pretend you are a bee...see what happens. Old chesnut stumps
Interspersed in this mountain laurel forest are American chestnut stumps.
Many of these still have chestnut saplings growing from them. Some of the larger ones actually bloom and put out burrs with chestnut seeds inside.
When the English and European settlers first came to the New World in the 1600s, most of the eastern part of the continent was a massive chestnut-hickory forest with other trees interspersed. Many of the ridgetops of the central Appalachians were so crowded with chestnut that, in early summer when their canopies were filled with
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