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 ...

A horse chestnut tree, like the one mentioned in "The Diary of Anne Frank," has been planted in Kelly In­gram Park to mark Holocaust Re­membrance. A dedicatory plaque at the tree features Anne Frank's ...

I love big, old trees! Something about them is magical. Each year we plant more trees and care for them. Watching them grow and caring about them is part of a gardener’s existence. Recently, our ...

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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