June 23, Blue Hills Reservation, Quincy
The fruiting chestnut was a twin-stemmed tree with the larger trunk about 18 cm in diameter at breast level and vast fungus damage on it; the smaller was already dead. Though the tree was found in the area where chestnuts were still abundant, there were no other trees in the immediate proximity. The isolated position had probably helped this chestnut to survive for a longer time and reach the productive age.