We all know about the American Chestnut and chestnut blight.
I couple years ago I read about the Dunstan Chestnut and have purchased a few and even in partial shade they are doing well. It is advertized as
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"The blight-resistant Dunstan Chestnuts make possible the re-establishment of chestnut trees and chestnut orchards in America."
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But I went to the site of The American Chestnut Foundation and not a word about the Dunstan hybrid and they mention they are actively trying to create blight resistant trees to reestablish the forests.
Does anyone know what is going on here? There is obviously an issue here. My guess is that the Dunstan Hybrid is not considered by the foundation as being an American Chestnut. For me what ever it is is less important than I get a tasty nut tree established on my place, although having a true american chestnut would be nice.