Perfect! They'll be ready for me to cut down about 30 years after I die.
Chestnut. Not sure if American or Chinese, but that's what I think it is...I've found about 3 of these in the woods recently and don't know what they are.
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It could possibly be fruiting, although it looks young. The bark is what gives it away. Young chestnuts have bark that resembles young black cherry trees, that tree of yours has those horizontal slashes. Anyway, the nut pods are green and spiny, turning brown as they dry out. Of.there's any squirrels around, you'll have a hard time finding any nuts.Would a tree that small produce any fruit? I can go back out there and look for signs.
It'll give me something to do between the deforestation project and the chain fixing project.
Chesnut's are very distinct, the fruit that is.It could possibly be fruiting, although it looks young. The bark is what gives it away. Young chestnuts have bark that resembles young black cherry trees, that tree of yours has those horizontal slashes. Anyway, the nut pods are green and spiny, turning brown as they dry out. Of.there's any squirrels around, you'll have a hard time finding any nuts.
We have about ten of these growing on our property, some are 6-8 inches in diameter . Being chesnuts are far and few between if any at all . Iam sticking with this as a beech tree. Ive googled both tree's there leaves are very close the same.
Believe it or not, the American Chestnut was also a primary food source for the now extinct passenger pigeons as well! Good read below....I read that the American chestnut was once one in four trees in eastern north America. A terrible loss for us and the wildlife as it was the most important hard mast for deer, bears and turkey.