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Pest Attack : Chestnut trees Affected
27/Aug/2006: There is much more to the horse chestnut tree than conkers. Its flowering is one of the most spectacular sights of the spring.
The broad leaves spread out in a brilliant iridescent green and above them open the tall upright white or pink "Roman candles", the biggest blossoms of any British tree.
Britain's horse chestnut trees, providers of conkers for generations of schoolboys, are dying in their thousands in the worst case of tree blight since Dutch elm disease 30 years ago.
The horse chestnuts, which often stand in majestic rows in city streets, are being hit by a "triple whammy" of drought, pest attack and disease. On many, the leaves have already withered and shrunk, and conkers, the fruits of the tree, are not being produced at all.
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