wormy or not wormy chestnut? that is the question.

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truckerdave

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What is the difference wormy chestnut and plain chestnut?
And don't tell me it's because of the worm holes!

The piece of wood in question is about 200 years old. I know that there was wormy chestnut in Ohio that long ago.
How do i know for sure???
 
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American Chestnut is an endangered species that is almost extinct due to chestnut blight. At one time it was one of the most common trees in North America. The largest remaining Chestnut grove is in Michigan! That consists of a forest of around 200 trees I believe.

Pretty sure that wormy chestnut is chestnut with worms holes in it just as it sounds. It's not that worms ate into the tree's and killed them. chestnut blight was a fungal infection on the tree's cambrium layer. The tree's were cut down or just fell down in the forests. Once on the ground, the worms come along and start doing their job of recycling the wood.

One of the interesting features of a Chestnut tree is that if you cut it down, it will re-sprout out of the stump into a full size tree again, so it was a great tree for logging, but if once the Blight came, they tried cutting down all the trees and the sprouts came up blight free until the sprouts became trees about 25 ft tall and then the blight would kick back it killing the tree.
 
They have been growing American Chestnut on the west coast for years and it has been making a come back.
The blight was on this side of the USA.
Question----are you talking about American Chestnut-----the name Chestnut applies to several families of wood including two of the Oaks.
 
As much as I appreciate woods, any woods, when it comes to chestnuts, you are most welcome to keep the tree, just send all the chestnut nuts to me, I'm totally @#&*% crazy about them. No..., not for making pen blanks from but to eat them (open fire, roasted, boiled, in soup and dry, until it hurts...!:eek::biggrin: yummy for my tamy....!


Cheers
George
 
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