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https://phys.org/news/2019-09-amazon-ta ... 5gYIo_0Vds

The Amazon's new tallest tree is 50% taller than previous tallest tree

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51j1wBBgfdL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg http://www.pamelamcelwee.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/highvillages-2.jpg http://www.pamelamcelwee.com/recent-publications/ https://www.amazon.ca/Forests-Are-Gold-Environmental-Vietnam/dp/0295995483 "Forests A...

My guess is that Dwarf Chestnut Oak would follow the same pattern as Dwarf Chinkapin Oak: similar in key identifiable characteristics to its larger relative, but much smaller and occupying a different niche on the landscape. It doesn't help that many sources use both Dwarf Chestnut and Dwarf Chinka...

Allegheny Chinkapin Castanea pumila 41.2' x 4.47' How likely is that? pumila is usually a bush. http://ents-bbs.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=8572 https://www.acf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Perkins_et_al._MorphologicalandDNAevidencesupportrecognitionofAlabamachinquapinCastaneapumilavar.alabamensis.pd...

ElijahW wrote:
Thanks. I forgot to mention the AF nation champion Dwarf Chinkapin Oak, nominated by Douglas Basset and Richard Cook.

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This looks suspicious. Any chance it is the wrong id? The fact the sign does not have dwarf on it suggests it is mislabelled, too?

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/marshall- ... vZG7p89Yao

Another link source

Lots of talk about this on the web

Genome-wide sequence-based genotyping supports a nonhybrid origin of Castanea alabamensis
Matthew Taylor Perkins, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Paul H. Sisco, J Hill Craddock

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/680371v1

The trees above may be this new one.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/congresswoman-ocasio-cortez-malta-an-unlikely-inventor/ Go to the 30:15 mark for the bit about " the unlikely, eccentric inventor turning inedible plant life into fuel." 100's of millions are being pumped into this tech. I was amazed I had not heard of it. The abuse thi...

"Big Reed Forest Reserve in northern Maine, a couple of hours by gravel road northwest of Baxter State Park. It is 5,000 acres of not just old-growth forest, but virgin forest – forest that has never been logged. It is the largest contiguous piece of old growth east of the Mississippi River and cont...

An even more interesting scenario. Sandra Anagnostakis does id on chestnut species and thinks this is something special, maybe, even a new species. Stayed tuned, I guess. https://www.facebook.com/groups/272120753285618/permalink/627712001059823/ Sandra Anagnostakis WOW!!!! I don't know what this tre...