Carolina chestnut
1989
Wallace, R.D.
A large, vigorous hybrid chestnut tree, having an upright growth form with broadly spreading branches and a rounded crown, and abundant, lustrous foliage of large elliptical leaves with slightly dentate margins, and stongly scented flowers appearing in spring after leafing out; the tree being a regular and very prolific bearer of large, dark colored and very sweet, easy-to-peel nuts, the nuts ripening and falling free from the burr in mid September to the first of October; the tree also exhibiting a very high inherent resistance to the chestnut bark blight (Endothia parasitica), not showing a single instance of blight infection in 15 years of growth in the orchard.
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