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.

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 ...

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

Messy fruit and seed pods make for a lot of work. One tree with beautiful flowers is a bit less labor intensive.

One of the two stately horse-chestnut trees, which have been landmarks on Canyon Road for nearly a century and a half, appears to be dead. Both trees began showing signs of stress, such as rust on ...

"Oh ! there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above." RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain but ...

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 ...

Cameraria ohridella, an invasive moth species, has emerged as a significant pest affecting horse chestnut trees (Aesculus hippocastanum) across Europe. The larvae of this leaf miner penetrate and feed ...

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