Floristic changes following the chestnut blight may be delayed for decades (IMAGE)

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Floristic changes following the chestnut blight may be delayed for decades

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Two images from the field show a chestnut sprout and a close up of the fungus. The canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is responsible for widespread loss of American chestnut trees from the forest canopy and resprouting branches of an infected tree, which are girdled and killed by the fungus before they can reach the canopy or reproduce. 

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Claire Karban, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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