Yes, It could be one of the old hybrids since it's amazingly large and has no blight on it. There appears to be some good identifyers on seedlings that can be found, but I haven't been able to ID them yet. I draw the line at taking the time to split species when it comes to growing them from seed and doing DNA studies to ID them. I'm just a novice at trying to identify various butternut crosses. I'm currently of the mind that they're the same species that either attain the resistant or non-resitant strain. I'll let the splitters worry about breaking them up beyond the species level.
BTW, I sent Keith some samples for his future studies. It is a remarkable tree. Dale > > Dale: Did you get a chance to compare this tree to descriptions of > Butternut hybrids that Keith Woeste supplied in his Purdue website? > http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/fnr/HTIRC/woeste.html > > On Oct 17, 9:38 pm, "Dale Luthringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > ENTS, > > > > On 7/14/08 & 8/26/08, I had the opportunity to measure a very nice > > butternut in McKean, PA, Erie County. It was another Erie tree > > nominated for the PA Big Tree program back in 2004 by Ken Fromknecht and > > Tom Erdman. It is a very nice tree. Certainly the largest butternut > > I've had the pleasure of measuring. What a dandy. The submitted > > measurements in 2004 were 16.3ft CBH x 76ft high x 98ft avg spread. It > > now stands at 16.7ft CBH x 65.4ft high x 87ft avg spread for 288 AF > > Points. It's not the current champ (300 AF Points), but is pretty darn > > close. > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
