Bagging the female burrs is ... before it can flower and reproduce.” Blight arrived in American when residents started importing Chinese chestnut trees at the turn of the century.

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be ... without any petals. Separate male flowers ...

"The big mission in the spring is to find trees with female flowers on them," Greene said. "The goal of the American Chestnut Foundation is to restore the species to its natural habitat and range ...

This will add to our current 5,165 total trees in our field trials ... in the bucket lift bagging female flowers. Figure 3. Left, American chestnut/Bouche de Betizac hybrid nuts as example of harvest.