There are also some surviving large American chestnuts, some of which have heritable blight resistance.
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Steve Strauss,
The Conversation,
22 July 2026
Mature trees donate an encyclopedia of species, including the regional pines and chestnuts planted on instruction of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1700s.
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