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Dollarhide Hunting Club forest Anyone heard of it? Has it been surveyed for big trees? I was reading about it in Tom Kelly's book, Infirm Opinions, last night. Kelly writes turkey hunting books but talks about his 50 years as a timber cruiser\manager in Alabama as much. His books are full of info on...

https://northernwoodlands.org/discoveries/tall-trees For many years, scientists have wondered what factors influence how tall a tree can grow. Much of the research has focused on how high water can be transported internally from roots to leaves, but a tree’s strength and stiffness are also critical ...

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dec ... -thirstier

Maybe more relevant in the northeat.

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.