June 23,
Blue Hills Reservation, Quincy
The fruiting chestnut is a twin-stemmed tree with the larger
trunk about 18 cm in diameter at breast level. You can see
fungus damage on it. The smaller trunk is already dead. Though the tree was
found in the area where chestnuts are still abundant, there are no other trees
in the immediate proximity. The isolated position has probably helped our
chestnut to avoid the disease for a long time and thus reach the productive age.