Some horse chestnut supplements are made from the tree’s dried leaves and nut oil, but if there’s any medicinal power in the plant, it’s in the nuts themselves. Fresh and unprocessed ...

The common horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum ... Q: I love figs and want to grow a fig plant. I understand it is not a hardy plant for the area where I live (Issaquah).

The McGoverns’ work included 10 seedlings in differing stages of ... and Chinese varieties of the tree and the common horse chestnut which is edible only by animals. The White Barn grove is ...

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 ...

Diseased horse chestnut trees must be cut down to save others ... a Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the University of Reading and a senior editor at Molecular Plant Pathology, echoes these ...

Land owners have been urged to look after their trees Roddie Burgess, head of the Forestry Commission's plant health service, said: "We do not yet have the complete picture. "For example, we don't yet ...

The stately, majestic horse chestnut must be one of the most recognisable trees, all year round, with its distinctive ‘hand’ shaped leaves, candelabra flower spikes and, of course – autumn’s abundant ...

However, the arrival of the leaf-miner moth and a disease called "bleeding canker", which can kill an infected horse chestnut, meant that local authorities were reluctant to plant them.