If it doesn't fit descriptions of any of the wild ones it could be a hybrid chestnut, of which many kinds are grown.

I think it looks like chinkapin.

Thanks, bboy and esh ga!

I saw my neighbors today, and they said that chinkapins do make decent size trees here. He said this one sounded like a chinkapin, that they also have big 'burs' or whatever you call the covering over the nuts. I'll be monitoring this one to get some chinkapins to plant when they start to turn brown - my neighbor said they'll turn brown in the fall. He also said he'd give me some chinkapins from a group near a deer plot that he's familiar with. I don't have this tree on my property and would love to have some.

Thanks again!

Sherry

If you can get to the nuts, apparently one difference is that chinkapins have one nut per bur while chestnut usually has 2 or more.

Yeah, I was about to say - check the fruit. If needed, taste the nut. It is not difficult to tell apart.

Last picture looks same as first.

Will do!

Thanks all!

Sherry

Haven't seen Chinkapins in over 40 yrs. esh, your picture is an actual Chinkapin?

Yes my picture is a real chinkapin.

scot,
We your chinkapin's the Ozark Chinkapin? If so you can blame Chestnut Blight. The Allegany Chinkapin (probable what esh has) is much more resistant to Chestnut Blight. There is a informal group trying to bring together cuttings from the few resistant trees of the Ozark Chinkapin for cross pollination, in hopes of developing more resistant trees. Will be a slow process without formal and financial support. But really it's about the only hope of saving the Ozark Chinkapin. BTW, I have one second year seedling, from seed I collected from a very mature isolated tree that would appear to be resistant.

Arktrees