The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

Citizen scientist volunteers are needed to help monitor sweet chestnut trees for pests and disease, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has said. Sweet chestnut trees, or Castanea sativa ...

Chestnut roasting vendors set up on street corners, and customers savored their sweet flavor throughout ... varieties grow well in places where fruit trees such as peaches and cherries do, making ...

It’s one of Britain’s best-loved tree species and it’s naturalised in some areas, but the sweet chestnut tree — Castanea sativa — isn’t a native, having arrived with the Romans. Most likely, they ...

A sweet chestnut tree planted in the 1500s has been named UK Tree of the Year – as investigations continue into who cut down the Sycamore Gap. The 483-year-old tree in Acton Park, Wrexham ...

Why did the Romans so favour the sweet chestnut tree? According to Krebs, they did not tend to value the fruit much – in Roman culture, it was portrayed as a rustic food of poor, rural people in ...

Citizen scientist volunteers are needed to help monitor sweet chestnut trees for pests and disease, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has said. Sweet chestnut trees, or Castanea sativa, are found ...