Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree native to the Balkan Peninsula ... (1) The raw seeds, bark, flowers, and leaves of horse chestnuts are not safe to eat as they contain a toxic ...

Britain's horse chestnut trees, providers of conkers for generations of schoolboys, are dying in their thousands in the worst case of tree blight since ... On many, the leaves have already ...

DOES IT WORK: Horse chestnut extract has been used ... chestnuts themselves are poisonous, as are the leaves, flowers and older bark of the tree. Chestnuts contain a poison called aesculin ...

Moths thought to have spread to the UK from Greece and Macedonia are also destroying the leaves of ... total number of horse chestnut trees in Britain affected by bleeding cankers. "There is a limit ...

But this autumn the sport is under threat from a string of hungry pests and deadly diseases ... prize horse chestnut tree ailing. While the canker may be fatal, moth infection and leaf blotch ...

Daniel Moerman’s 1998 book Native American Ethnobotany cites the chestnut, part of the same genus, as a treatment ... tree’s genes are resistant. Now, by injecting a single leaf with cultured ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

In the summer of 1904, American chestnut trees in the Bronx were in trouble. Leaves, normally slender ... a fungus that causes chestnut blight. That fungus had been imported on Japanese chestnut ...