The chestnut tree, an emblematic species with both cultural and economic significance across Europe and Asia, faces considerable challenges due to a range of fungal diseases. Research in recent ...

I do not see many horse chestnuts in home landscapes and your tree is a beautiful specimen. It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch.

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...

PITTSFIELD — An orchard of chestnut trees in Springside Park got some tough love Wednesday when a group of volunteers inoculated them against an invasive disease. The action will kill off 80 to 90 ...

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s, ...

Many years ago, I worked at nursery called Davey Tree farm just northwest of Wooster. While I worked there, I developed a relationship with an arborist who was hired to help the nursery. He had a ...

Each fall, nuts and leaves from the trees would blanket forest floors with nutrients. Rich in calories, vitamin C, and ...

Diseases are among the major causes of tree mortality in both forests and urban areas. New diseases are continually being introduced, and pathogens are continually jumping to new hosts, threatening ...