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Castanea dentata

American chestnut

IUCN: critically endangered

6

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1962

First collected

2000

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

4 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1960s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1962 by Seymour, F.C. (Plymouth County; Brockton Heights).

From the collection

Castanea dentata, 666381Castanea dentata, 656367Castanea dentata, 667524