Dunstan Chestnut Trees. Native Tree Is Blight Resistant With HUGE Crops Chestnut trees are true American classics. In the early 1900's chestnut trees were the most important species of tree for food and timber in the Eastern hardwood forests. In 1904 a bark fungus was introduced from the Orient that killed 30 million acres of chestnut trees in 40 short years. In the early 1950's a man in Ohio discovered one Chestnut tree alive and thriving in the middle of grove of dead and dying trees. That tree became the parent to the... - Dunstan Chestnut Trees. | 
