One of the two stately horse-chestnut trees, which have been landmarks on Canyon Road for nearly a century and a half, appears to be dead. Both trees began showing signs of stress, such as rust on ...

I do not see many horse chestnuts in home landscapes and your tree is a beautiful specimen. It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch.

Horse chestnut trees are native to the mountains of the Middle East and Balkans but are now grown worldwide. Some horse chestnut supplements are made from the tree’s dried leaves and nut oil, but if ...

Leaves: Deciduous; oppositely arranged; palmately compound leaves; 5 obovate leaflets with lobed, serrate margins. Twigs and buds: Glabrous; stout; reddish-brown; have prominent horse-shoe-shaped leaf ...

A horse chestnut tree, like the one mentioned in "The Diary of Anne Frank," has been planted in Kelly In­gram Park to mark Holocaust Re­membrance. A dedicatory plaque at the tree features Anne Frank's ...

Cameraria ohridella, an invasive moth species, has emerged as a significant pest affecting horse chestnut trees (Aesculus hippocastanum) across Europe. The larvae of this leaf miner penetrate and feed ...

A LARGE tree in a park in Taunton is set to be felled soon, the council has confirmed. Taunton Town Council have announced ...

"Oh ! there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above." RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain but ...

An herb with the unlikely name of horse chestnut may prove to hold some of the keys to managing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Approximately 10%-15% of men and 20%-25% of women are afflicted by ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, established in 1983, has developed a hybrid American chestnut that is resistant to blight. Since 2014, biotechnologists at the College of Environmental Science and ...

On Oct. 2, 2015, nearly 1,000 people, including former President Bill Clinton, gathered for the planting of a rare sapling at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. The thin sprig of a tree ...