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Whole tree Bark Twig Leaf Flower Fruit

Castanea dentata
Family: Fagaceae
Common name: American chestnut

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Whole tree      Jump to: Bark Twig Leaf Flower Fruit

Castanea dentata - Whole tree - American chestnut
(c) 2002 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use
Fallen trunk of blight victim

Bark      Jump to: Whole tree Twig Leaf Flower Fruit

Castanea dentata - Bark - American chestnut
(c) 2003 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use
Bark of tree felled decades ago by blight

Twig      Jump to: Whole tree Bark Leaf Flower Fruit

Castanea dentata - Twig - American chestnut
(c) 2002 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use

Leaf      Jump to: Whole tree Bark Twig Flower Fruit

Castanea dentata - Leaf - American chestnut
(c) 2002 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use

Flower      Jump to: Whole tree Bark Twig Leaf Fruit

Castanea dentata - Flower - American chestnut
(c) 2004 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use

Fruit      Jump to: Whole tree Bark Twig Leaf Flower

Castanea dentata - Fruit - American chestnut
(c) 2004 Steven J. Baskauf - Terms of use
sterile fruit hull


Line drawing from Britton and Brown (1913)

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