Horse chestnut offers a range of potential benefits and uses, from relieving varicose veins and reducing symptoms of CVI to providing anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. While research is ...

Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the family Sapindaceae is a medium-sized (up to 40m) deciduous tree ...

If you're foraging for wild chestnuts, don't confuse edible sweet chestnuts with unrelated (and inedible) horse chestnuts - also known as conkers. Wild British sweet chestnuts are not fully ripe ...

It's spring in Geneva when the secretary general of the cantonal parliament sees the first leaf on the city's official horse ...