Sayers Butternut

Sayers Butternut	Dale Luthringer
	October 17, 208

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.

Enjoy the pics!

Dale

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sat, Oct 18 2008 2:32 am
From: Peter Aplin

Wow, thats quite a tree!...I couldn't help but comment on the huge,
buttress like vein of reaction wood that snakes up to support the
limb above, interesting architecture.
The neighborhood squirrels must love it.
Pete

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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Oct 21 2008 5:45 am
From: djluthringer@pennswoods.net

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

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