Scientists have been trying to genetically cross breed the American Chestnut with the Chinese Chestnut that has an immunity and to the blight. But it needs to be done in a way to not change the tree too much as the two species are very different.

Some do exist in the wild. There's a grove of 600-800 trees in Michigan I believe and there's also a project working on immunity in Eastern PA.

More info.

https://tacf.org/

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Well you’re certainly full of information today 💜

I went into a chestnut tree deep drive a few years back 🥹 but I've always been fascinated by them.

Thanks for sharing, truly is fascinating as I had no idea about this.

We had one in our yard when I was a kid. in the fall would give the beautiful chestnut nuts, but in the summer, the tree was the most unbelievably beautiful shade tree. It created a perfect umbrella shade area that was better than any shade tree I’ve ever seen. I haven’t been back there in 30 years and wonder what happened to that tree.