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.

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is also known as buckeye and Spanish chestnut (not to be confused with the edible chestnut). Although the tall, treelike plant is mainly grown as an ...

Q: I love horse-chestnut trees. Are they hard to grow? A: Not if you have plenty of room and don’t mind cleaning up after them in autumn. The common horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum ...

The horse-chestnut leaf miner was living on native stands of the horse-chestnut in Greece by 1879 and was already present in the Balkans more than a century before its scientific description.

The horse chestnut tree in front of my house looks worse than ever. ... For more plant advice, contact the Plant Information Service at the Chicago Botanic Garden at plantinfo@chicagobotanic.org.

Horse chestnut is a herbal remedy offering superb anti-inflammatory properties and used commonly for varicose veins. less than 2 min read. May 27, 2009 - 6:00AM.

Ingredients: 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter. 4 cups whole roasted chestnuts (or about 1-1/2 pounds) 1 carrot, peeled and sliced. 1 parsnip, peeled and sliced ...

The horse chestnut has become an iconic sight in Britain since its introduction in the 1500s but in 2002 a new lethal disease appeared ... A plant will normally produce nitric oxide as part of ...

Horse chestnut trees infested with foliage-damaging leaf miner insects are not at greater risk from a bacterial disease, a study shows. Forest Research scientists carried out the study to examine ...