"A chinka-what?" I asked my grandparents, as they told me about this surprising and funny little nut that's widespread from Maryland down to Texas. My grandparents explained that they grew up enjoying ...
EUREKA SPRINGS -- A once abundant and beloved tree is getting a helping hand to once again populate forests in the Ozarks. Ozark chinquapin trees, a hardy nut producing hardwood, once thrived across ...
HOBBS STATE PARK — Al Knox has spent years here as a volunteer and trail supervisor. It was as a volunteer, in 2002, that he found the Ozark chinquapin. The chinquapin is a tree in the chestnut family ...
Giant chinkapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla), sometimes called golden-leafed chinquapin and golden-leafed chestnut because of the minute golden scales on the leaf bottom, is a western hardwood and is an ...
VAN BUREN – Seven people recently hiked up to a clearing on a ridge top to inspect the progress in a crusade to save the Ozark chinquapin, a once mighty tree that has all but disappeared from the ...
Patricia Morais Fernandes, a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. William Powell’s lab, is attempting to save the Ozark chinquapin (Castanea ozarkensis). The tree is a long-lost cousin of the American ...