No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at 68 sites in 26 West Virginia counties, though there are also native ...

is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...