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.

I once saw a few small trees that had grown from seeds blown in by the wind. What a humble beginning for a tree that lives so long! —From Henry David Thoreau’s posthumous work *‘The Dispersion of ...

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 ...

Granville Intermediate fifth graders celebrated Arbor Day by planting a tree and learning about its environmental importance.

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 ...