Its a bad year for this wild chestnut

the flying dutchman · 09-21-2010, 09:09 AM

This is what we call the "Wild Chestnut" aka "Aesculus hippocastanum" or
the "Horsechestnut"

It's a so called inedible Chestnut but deers are fond of the fruit and
so it is collected and fed to the deers in winters when they have not much to
eat.

This one is over 100 years old, the leaves look diseased this year but
could be very healthy next year, this changes depending on weather
conditions i think.
Anyway, there was not much fruit on this one but a smaller one nearby was full of Fruit.

Jack Daw · 09-21-2010, 09:24 AM

It's shame that we don't have more members from Ukraine here. Although very wide spread, you don't really know what chestnut country looks like, unless you visit Ukraine. It's their national tree and grows literally everywhere. Locals called it what could phonetically be translated as "Kashtan" and it even is in the city sighns of such cities as Kiev.

the flying dutchman · 09-21-2010, 10:50 AM

Thanks Jack, the Dutch word for Chestnut is "Kastanje" wich sounds the same as "Kashtan" I guess.

Btw look if Ukraine has a Wikipedia and put Bananas.org there somewhere in a delicate way.
I did this with many Wikipedias all over the world in the past, even the Russian and other
East European.LOL

Ron...

bigdog · 09-27-2010, 09:56 PM

Hi Ron,

Nice Horse Chestnut! I think it will be fine. The disease looks to be a rust, and is very common on Aesculus here. They can spray a preventative fungicide in the spring, and then again in the summer, to prevent the rust from forming, but the cost may be too much for a tree that size. Luckily, it is only an aesthetic problem.

Frank

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