Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the family Sapindaceae is a medium-sized (up to 40m) deciduous tree ...
The World Conker Championships are under threat after the unseasonably high winds caused Horse Chestnuts to fall a month early. Organisers of the championship, which is held annually in October ...
As the autumn season begins, dog owners are being warned about an unlikely but potentially dangerous obstacle - conkers. The seeds, which fall from horse chestnut trees, are poisonous to dogs because ...
If you're foraging for wild chestnuts, don't confuse edible sweet chestnuts with unrelated (and inedible) horse chestnuts - also known as conkers. Wild British sweet chestnuts are not fully ripe ...
You can keep moths away by putting conkers in your wardrobe as there is a chemical in the horse chestnut seeds called triterpenoid saponin that keeps pests away. Conkers are “highly poisonous ...
When I booked an Airbnb in Sicily, I was unaware I chose lodging a five-minute walk from the oldest and largest Chestnut tree in the world. The “Hundred Horse Chestnut” is “generally believed to ...
You can keep moths away by putting conkers in your wardrobe as there is a chemical in the horse chestnut seeds called triterpenoid saponin that keeps pests away. The Wildlife Trust advises that you ...