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 ...

and look absolutely stunning during the fall when their leaves change to a burnt orange hue. They're also one of the few chestnut trees resistant to chestnut blight, a particularly lethal tree ...

Besides, the leaf and pod litter makes the yards messy ... Depending on the region, chestnut trees can contract untold ...

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 ...

Horse chestnut and sweet chestnut trees aren’t related, even though they have similar names.

In 2009, Natural History Museum, London, lepidopterist David Lees joined a project to study horse chestnut leaf miner moths (Cameraria ohridella), which are currently infesting trees across much of ...