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 ...

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree native to the Balkan Peninsula ... These are called horse chestnuts. (1) The raw seeds, bark, flowers, and leaves of horse chestnuts are not ...