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The green chestnut burr is sticky and prevents wildlife from taking the chestnut crop off the tree before it is ripe.
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The Colossal Chesnut can grow as large as a Lemon and is delicious to eat when roasted and peeled.
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Great intrest has developed in replanting forests of the native American Chestnut tree. Intercrossing American Chestnuts with other foreign chestnut species has created promising seedlings that are resistant to the chestnut blight that devastated early American native chestnut trees.
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