This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to ...

And like cypress, the American chestnut is valued for its beauty. These days few chestnut trees manage to reach maturity due to a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep got one expert on the phone who says ...

The tree produces an annual fall harvest of walnuts ... fungus called the Asian chestnut blight," the forest service said.

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup of ...