A year ago, Sean Power was traveling in Italy, where he found a street vendor roasting chestnuts. After seeing similar nuts fall from trees at Seattle’s Volunteer Park, he looked up some recipes ...

Horse chestnuts, sweet chestnuts, marrons–so many names for fruits that look very similar. But don’t be fooled. These are not ...

Have you ever heard of a horse chestnut tree? About 10 years ago, I was looking through a catalog from Forest Farm, a company that specializes in unusual trees and shrubs, and came across the horse ...

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 ...

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 Dutch elm disease 30 years ago. The horse ...

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) has ...