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 ...

I love big, old trees! Something about them is magical. Each year we plant more trees and care for them. Watching them grow and caring about them is part of a gardener’s existence. Recently, our ...

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 ...

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The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has advised caution, warning that people may experience difficulty breathing and other symptoms after mistaking brown horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) ...

"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 ...

FRANKFURT (dpa) ­- The horse chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella, a moth of unknown origin, is tiny, silent and inconspicuous and yet it leaves a trail of destruction in its wake. The moths ...

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 ...