Twigs and buds: Glabrous; stout; reddish-brown; have prominent horse-shoe-shaped leaf scars; series of bundle-scars around margin of leaf scar Fruit: Green husk covered in spikes; nut ... tree. The ...

The horse chestnut tree in front of my house looks worse than ever. Its remaining leaves are brown, and many fell early. Is ...

In a game of conkers, two players take turns hitting each other's conker — the seed of a horse chestnut tree — until one of ...

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competitive nut swinging. Why? A conker is a powerful thing. Planted in the right conditions, it will grow into a horse chestnut tree, a magnificent arbor which – if not felled to make a statue ...

Conker, or conkers, is a game in which two competitors take turns using a horse chestnut attached to a string ... conker strings to pick out a harder nut. I'm suspicious of foul play and ...

The game involves players using conkers — the glossy brown seeds from the horse chestnut tree — threaded onto a string to try and smash their opponent’s chestnut. Each player takes three ...

sees competitors use conkers - the seeds of horse chestnut trees - threaded onto string to try to smash their opponent's nut. Eighty-two-year-old David Jakins, nicknamed "King Conker", won the men ...

AN UNSAFE chestnut tree posing as a hazard to park users is set to be removed. Wychavon District Council said it would remove a mature horse chestnut tree in Abbey Park, Pershore, after it ...

If you elect to forage your own chestnuts, just be sure you’re not picking up horse chestnuts ... to find and travel to the trees, then you have to collect the nuts, stubbing them out of ...

Large and heavy nuts are preferred. A few years ago ... In a game of conkers, two players take turns hitting each other's conker — the seed of a horse chestnut tree — until one of them breaks. The ...