The horse chestnut has become an iconic sight in Britain since its introduction in the 1500s but in 2002 a new lethal disease appeared that now infects over 70 per cent of trees in some areas.

The National Trust has lost its battle to save one of the country's most impressive avenues of horse chestnut trees from a killer disease that could mark the end of the British conker. Expert tree ...

near Bushey Hill Park where four colonnades of horse chestnut trees range above the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. Dutch scientists have been trying to isolate the cause of the disease.

This is the tree-mendous phenomenon uncovered when a 200-year-old horse chestnut tree was felled ... "I suspect the disease has been caused by a bug of some sort and the heart of the wood has ...

leaving them vulnerable to disease Horse chestnut trees infested with foliage-damaging leaf miner insects are not at greater risk from a bacterial disease, a study shows. Forest Research ...

near Bushey Hill Park where four colonnades of horse chestnut trees range above the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain. Dutch scientists have been trying to isolate the cause of the disease.

Horse chestnut trees in the Phoenix Park, and nationwide, have been affected by a number of diseases, most notably, Bleeding Canker (Pseudomonas syringae pv. Aesculi), which can kill trees of any age.

It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch. Several of the Garden’s horse chestnuts show signs of this same disease. This year’s ...

THE traditional playground game of conkers has come under threat from a disease spreading to horse chestnut trees in Lancashire. Thousands of schoolchildren could be disappointed in years to come ...

Kim BriscoeNorwich scientists have made a breakthrough in research into a disease which is killing off the UK's horse chestnut trees.Kim Briscoe Norwich scientists have made a breakthrough in research ...

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GROW:An increasing number of these stately, lofty trees are being lost to a highly damaging bacterial disease IT MAY NOT be native to Ireland but the horse chestnut is still one of our loveliest ...