God has forsaken us

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• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We did get quite a bit of Wormy Chestnut from it. I knew a few people in the mountains of NC whose families got quite rich off the stuff, actually. No, not the wood stained like it, but the real stuff.

  People have probably found ways to artificially make it by now, but wood from the original trees that were killed was beautiful when used by a good architect and designer.

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  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder if the European species of chestnut are going to meet the same fate. For the past ten years every tree I see has signs of disease, by mid summer the leaves are becoming brown.

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• Badass_panda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My dad has been obsessed with this my whole life. The dude just really likes American chestnut trees. He’s part of an advocacy organization that is testing blight resistant genetic hybrids, and planting chestnuts in their yards to preserve them in the meantime.

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• zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  tacf.org

  They very much still exist Your welcome.

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• Mefek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh, my parents house still has chestnut trees that we get chestnuts from in like mid fall

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  • Badass_panda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve got chestnut trees in my yard, but they’re Japanese chestnuts – yours might be, too.

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    • Mefek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Interesting. Im looking at how to tell the difference and I think you’re right, they do seem to be more like the Japanese type. Thanks, the more I know.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve ever had a chestnut. I’ve seen them used as decoration at Christmas, and songs and stories that involve roasting them and eating them but the only kind of chestnut I have ever put in my mouth has been a water chestnut. And I don’t think those are actually nuts.

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