Willamette Chestnut
OwnerRobert D. Wallaceinventor
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Abstract
A medium size hybrid chestnut tree, having an upright and widely spreading form and glossy dark green foliage with prolific, sweet scented flowers appearing after leaf out in spring; the tree being a regular and very productive bearer of extremely large, chocolate brown, very sweet and easy-to-peel nuts, the nuts ripening and falling free from the burrs in mid-September; the tree also displaying a high genetic resistance to the chestnut bark blight (Endothia parasitica), being bred from the same line of hybrid chestnut trees as the Revival Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,537), the Heritage Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,574), and the Carolina Chestnut (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,041), the present variety itself not showing any instance of blight infection in 12 years of growth in the orchard.
Claims1
A new and distinct variety of hybrid chestnut tree, substantially as illustrated and described, which is of medium size, upright and widely spreading form, with large, glossy, dark green oblong leaves with dentate margins, flowering late and profusely after leaf out in spring;
- the tree being a regular and very prolific bearer of extremely large, chocolate brown, very sweet and easy-to-peel nuts that ripen in mid-September and are released easily from the burrs for easy harvesting;
- the trees showing a high genetic resistance to the chestnut bark blight;
- and the trees being especially characterized by having the combination of good orchard form, blight resistance.
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