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, ...

Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the family Sapindaceae is a medium-sized (up to 40m) deciduous tree ...

Horse Chestnut , a South African Horse of the Year, will be shipped out of the United States to take up stud duties at the Rupert family’s Drakenstein Stud Farm in the Western Cape in South Africa.

Small in stature, the feisty chestnut was an unknown when he ... Sacketts Harbor in northern New York who had taken up horse-racing as a hobby. "We were just sitting around having a couple ...

It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch. Several of the Garden’s horse chestnuts show signs of this same disease. This year’s ...

Evil chestnut impostors are, in a nutshell, making life difficult. Which means it’s a good time to remember that not all chestnuts are what they seem: Some, as Power found out, are horse ...

Professor Fiona Stafford discusses the horse chestnut, a tree imported from Balkans. A showy, ornamental variety, it has little use apart from conkers. Show more Despite being a much loved tree ...