A healthy Smokey Mountain chestnut
This newly discovered American chestnut is in the Tremont
area. These avid hikers discovered this tree
on one of their excursions into the mountains. They are (from left
to right) Bob Hawthorne, Don Lorenzo
and Ralph Herbert.
Notice the top of the tree is getting full sun, so it likely
will be producing flowers this summer (2008). It may be
possible to take pollen from this tree and pollinate one of the backcross
hybrid chestnut trees at Meadoview
Virginia to bring its genes into TACF's backcross breeding program.
Please visit these Tennessee chestnut websites:
Hill
Craddock's chestnut website
Resurrecting the American
chestnut
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/1436/