Be aware, too, that edible chestnuts are not the same thing as inedible horse chestnuts. The edible ones have a pointed top, the horse chestnut has a flattened smooth top. Chestnuts should be ...

The benefits of horse chestnut are traditionally touted for treating conditions like joint pain, bladder issues, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), irritable bowel ...

9. The oldest chestnut tree in the world grows on an active volcano “Castagno dei Cento Cavalli” or “The Hundred-Horse Chestnut”, is the largest and oldest known chestnut tree in the world.

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...