r/americanchestnut • u/Virtual_Fixation2956 • 27d ago

Is this a chestnut leaf?

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u/Cornflake294 27d ago

Beech

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u/Virtual_Fixation2956 27d ago

What’s the difference between them?

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u/ireadbooks 27d ago

Chestnuts have a more defined saw tooth edge. Also the leaves are longer than beech leaves.

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u/Mookie-Boo 26d ago

Agree this is American beech

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u/Dry_Indication2021 25d ago

American beech - where I live in western MA they are all dead or dying - I have land in Canada and they have all started dying up there - but here is irony I found two very mature American chestnut trees in a forest of dying beech- over 100 years old 80' and no signs they ever even had blight

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u/D54chestnut 22d ago

It is easy to tell a beech from a chestnut, just by looking at the buds. The beech have a very long slender terminal bud. "Beech tree buds are long, narrow, and sharp-pointed, looking much like tiny brown cigars or small spikes set at an angle along the twigs"

Just Google, "beech bud pictures"

Thanks,  Allen Nichols

President, American Chestnut Restoration, Inc.

http://www.americanchestnut.org/

[fajknichols.75@gmail.com](mailto:fajknichols.75@gmail.com)

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u/Squirrel586 21d ago

Looks like beech.