Chestnut Trees or ???

[Mountain]

Been seeing a few chestnuts in the fall on one of my local trails. Today I remembered to check trees while they were covered in leaves. Can anyone verify these are chestnuts trees, especially the big one?

Smaller one about 10' tall-


And the big one-

 

[Fritz the Cat]

It could be. My first guess would be a variety of elm. Siberian elm or slippery elm, maybe.

 

[Arto]

looks like Chestnut Saplings, & a Chestnut Oak

 

[TrenchKnife]

there are several types of chestnut in new england. the rarest is the american chestnut, the edible one. the inedible one is the horse chestnut but is uncommon. the most common is the chinese chestnut (not sure on edibility). and there are others.

you may have to wait for the fruit to bear before you can identify. look for ditrious around the tree, maybe you can find the husks/shells and get more identifiable traits.

 

[Georgiak9]

It looks like an American Chestnut

 

[MrsStrangeNH]

First one most likely a chestnut, probably American chestnut. Chestnuts readily hybridize with other types of chestnut so it can be difficult to tell, especially without detailed observations over the course of the growing season.

Not sure on the second one. Have you seen it in flower? What do the nuts look like? Are the leaves as deeply toothed as those on the first one, or are they more scalloped? Do the teeth curve as they come to a point? Do the twigs have some elliptical yellow spots, small round white spots, or no spots? What color are the twigs and the young twigs?

 

[namedpipes]

Been seeing a few chestnuts in the fall on one of my local trails. Today I remembered to check trees while they were covered in leaves. Can anyone verify these are chestnuts trees, especially the big one?
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They're Castanea Dentata (commonly known as American Chestnut)

Careful, in some parts of Mass it is illegal to move vegetation (leaves, flowers, sticks, etc) from one property to another!

 

[LuvDog]

the inedible one is the horse chestnut but is uncommon.

But we like to call that one a Buckeye

 

[mousegunguy]

The first picture of the leaves is definitely an American chestnut which are actually super common but rarely get large enough to reproduce.
Horse chestnut is not a true chestnut, different genus.
All true chestnut species are edible.
I’d need better pictures of the leaves and first years wood to ID the other blurry tree pictures

 

[mousegunguy]

But we like to call that one a Buckeye

Konkers!!

 

[mousegunguy]

Come for the foraging walk tomorrow, We just may find some.

 

[76Too]

Wow! We have some tree nuts here @nes (hah, tree nuts…PUN!)

I really want to get better at tree ID since I now own 72 heavily wooded acres in southwestern Appalachia.

Any good comprehensive resources any of you can recommend?

 

[Georgiak9]

Wow! We have some tree nuts here @nes (hah, tree nuts…PUN!)

I really want to get better at tree ID since I now own 72 heavily wooded acres in southwestern Appalachia.

Any good comprehensive resources any of you can recommend?

Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America: Williams, Michael D.: 9780811718301: Books - Amazon
This is the book I use. Easy to use and breaks it down into identifiable categories.

 

[Arto]

#1: American Chestnut - - Purdue Fort Wayne

#2: Chestnut Oak - - Purdue Fort Wayne

The American Chestnut Society is trying to restore them: Tree Identification - The American Chestnut Foundation

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Wow! We have some tree nuts here @nes (hah, tree nuts…PUN!)

I really want to get better at tree ID since I now own 72 heavily wooded acres in southwestern Appalachia.

Any good comprehensive resources any of you can recommend?

Plantnet app. I really like it. I wouldn't take each result as the gospel. But it will get you going in the right direction. And if you do use it, please be 100% sure before you click "confirm" when you are IDing plants. Incorrect results skew the algorithms.

 

[Mountain]

Thanks all. The big one may indeed be a chestnut oak- I'll have to keep an eye on it and maybe get a closer look at leaves. There are definitely some nut bearing American chestnuts as I always see the husks late summer and fall. I think the smaller ones are still too young / too small but I think there are some mid-size ones surviving long enough to bear nuts.

No horse chestnuts in the area. There were some near me back in my SoCal days and I'm very familiar with them.

I have a couple chestnuts from the NES karma. I have a clearing in my back 40 where they will go as soon as the tree protectors deliver- should be tomorrow or maybe Sunday.

 

[DJBrad]

Found a living American Chestnut the other day in my woods. They tend to thrive under a shaded canopy but eventually will succumb to the blight at some point. I have another one that is pretty healthy and has a good crown. This one pictured below is probably 20ft tall and leaning badly with a stump sprout.

 

[TG Pioneer]

The head of Dighton’s conservation commission has been actively propagating American Chestnut trees for years. He’s really doing an amazing job with them. The depth of knowledge he has is incredible. I’m glad there are people like him working hard to keep this species from going extinct.

 

[garandman]

Wow! We have some tree nuts here @nes (hah, tree nuts…PUN!)

I really want to get better at tree ID since I now own 72 heavily wooded acres in southwestern Appalachia.

Any good comprehensive resources any of you can recommend?

Got this app and it identified an Eastern Hornbeam along with more common trees.

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[garandman]

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