On Sunday, December 30, 2018 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-6, dpb wrote:
On 12/30/2018 1:31 PM, Sonny wrote:
As I understand, original trees or growth will sprout from root/trunk stock, but after about 5 years, the blight will kill them.

The blight bug.....

Actually, it's not an insect but a fungus... Chryphonectria parasitica

Yeah, I used the wrong word. My concern is, no matter what plant(s) I get, how can I know, for sure, the fungus (dormant or not) is not in the soil or embedded in the plant, itself.

Seems no one knows, for sure, where the fungus may be residing in any particular scenario. Seems it has multiple venues of transport and multiple host paths, i.e., the soil, air, water or *plants, for infecting. As to *Plants, there may be plants, other than chestnut, where the fungus can reside, in limbo.

There's this tree in Tumwater, Wash.
https://tgaw.wordpress.com/2011/06/0...er-washington/

Link above, the guy's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgaw/s...7626719600594/
These trees don't seem to be typical tall trees, with branches starting high up. There's no confirming they aren't hybrid. Supposedly, west of the Rockies old trees are blight and hybrid free.

Sonny