By Dick Warner Monday, August 22, 2011 I can’t walk past a horse chestnut tree without stopping to examine it. I look for signs of disease, for the bleeding canker of horse chestnut. It’s a new

The big trees in my local park look in ill health. Is there anything I can do? Lucy Siegle The Observer, Saturday 15 October 2011 Article history Sometimes tree hugging isn't enough: today's tre

A Potential Cure on the Horizon for Horse Chestnut Bleeding Canker Bleeding Canker in Horse Chestnut trees is caused by the bacteria Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi, and has only recently been reco

UK horse chestnuts have suffered increased levels of attack from the horse chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella, and from a fungal pathogen causing stem bleeding, commonly known as bleeding canker

Pathogens and pests A number of well known pathogens and pests are known to affect horse chestnut and are described in the book ‘Diagnosis of Ill-health in Trees' (see Strouts and Winter, 2000).

PESTS AND DISEASES OF HORSE CHESTNUT (Aesculus hippocastanum) The horse chestnut, a medium-sized tree belonging to the botanical family Hippocastanaceae, is widely used for shade and ornamental