Plant Profile: American Chestnut (Castanea dentata)
Karen Native to Eastern US, the American chestnut is almost extinct in the wild because of the chestnut blight that was introduced on Japanese nursery stock in the late 1800s. Most…
Botanical Latin: Dentata
Dentata (den TAY tuh) derived from the Latin dens, dentis (tooth), meaning toothed Often used as the specific epithet, dentata usually refers to the margins of the leaves. American chestnut,…