Selected Mother Trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
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Great Chestnut of Providence, R.I. 1911
Fitchburg, MA
2002
Centredale, R.I. chestnut, 1917
Amherst, MA
2003
Scituate, RI chestnut with poem, 1913
Uxbridge, MA
2003
Foster, R.I. chestnut 1918 view 1
Middlesex, MA
2003?
Foster, R.I. chestnut, view 2
Glocester, RI
2005
Foster, R.I. chestnut, view 2
Glocester, RI
unusual bark
2005
List of large trees of R.I., 1917 p. 2
Lincoln, RI
Charlotte Zampini
2005
List of large trees of R.I., 1917 p. 1
Lincoln, RI
2005
List of large trees of R.I., 1917 p. 4
Lincoln, RI w/
swallowtail butterfly
2005
These are just a few of the temporarily surviving American chestnut mother trees
which we are adding to the gene pool for our future chestnut population.

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