Cryphonectria parasitica is a parasitic fungus of chestnut trees. This disease came to be known as chestnut blight. Naturally found in South East Asia, accidental introductions led to invasive populations of C. parasitica in North America and Europe.

Chestnut blight is a canker disease of American chestnut trees. Its introduction to North America is the greatest tragedy in American forest history.

May 3, 2024 · With its strong, rot resistant wood and abundant annual crop of nutrient dense chestnuts, the American chestnut was once an invaluable hardwood for humans and wildlife before the chestnut blight decimated its populations in the early 1900s, leaving a lasting scar on eastern North American forests.

Apr 29, 2019 · But, after decades of work breeding trees, The American Chestnut Foundation, a partner in the Forest Service’s effort to restore the tree, is close to being able to make a blight-resistant American chestnut available.

Today, it’s extremely rare to find a mature American chestnut within its native range due to a fungus called the Asian chestnut blight. The blight infects tree trunks and kills everything above the infection point.

Apr 27, 2023 · Chestnut blight is a fungal pathogen that caused the functional extinction of American chestnut in eastern North American forests. This fact sheet describ…

Apr 25, 2023 · A coalition of federal agencies, states, nonprofits, universities and private citizens have been working to create a blight-resistant chestnut. The American Chestnut Research & Restoration Program at the State University of New York has developed one such tree, known as Darling chestnut.

Species Profile: Chestnut Blight. Fungal disease of chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) that virtually eliminated mature American chestnuts from the U.S.

The chestnut blight fungus was accidentally introduced into the U.S. on Japanese chestnut trees imported at the end of the 1800s. It was spread all over the range of our native chestnut trees by "mail order" as people bought chestnut trees from nurseries, and was spread locally by every creature that walked over the cankers.

chestnut blight, plant disease caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly known as Endothia parasitica). Accidentally imported from Asia, the disease was first observed in 1904 in the New York Zoological Gardens.