Castanea dentata gallery

American Chestnut Gallery

Bark with two-lined chestnut borer exit holes

The immature bark on this stem does not display chesnut blight symptoms but the presence of the exit holes suggests that the stem is in poor health.

Weiser State Forest (Columbia Co)
by George Chamuris on 06/14/2021
Stem with symptoms of chestnut blight

Stem with symptoms (bark cracking) and signs (perithecia of Cryphonectria parasitica) of chestnut blight

Weiser State Forest (Columbia Co)
by George Chamuris on 06/14/2021
Older stems with sprouts

Sprouts showing chestnut blight symptoms on older stems

Ricketts Glen State Park (Luzerne Co)
by George Chamuris on 06/16/2011
Branch
Young trees