Medically reviewed by Allison Herries, RDN The benefits of horse chestnut are traditionally touted for treating conditions ...

Its seeds, encased in large prickly burrs ... rust-colored fungus growing on the bark of chestnut trees there. Soon, those trees were dead, as the pathogenic fungus known simply as “blight ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...