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Ozark chinquapin - shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States

Castanea ozarkensis, chinquapin, Ozark chinkapin

chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin - small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut

Castanea, genus Castanea - chestnuts; chinkapins

chestnut tree, chestnut - any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur

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It also destroyed more than 99 percent of a related nut tree, the Ozark chinquapin. Growing rapidly and bearing small, round nuts singly in the burr, Ozark chinquapin trees were once common on well-drained hillsides throughout the lower Midwestern and upper Southern states.

Spread of chestnut blight

"That's what I feel like." Bost is working to save the Ozark chinquapin (Caslanea pumila var.

After World War II, the blight jumped the Mississippi River and attacked the Ozark chinquapin. The pre-blight Ozark Chinquapin--isolated first by glaciation and then by the Mississippi River from its American chestnut and Alleghany chinquapin relatives--became an important canopy tree in the ancient mesic forest that makes up today's Ozarks.

Tree saver: one man's crusade to save an Ozark legend

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