Japanese Chestnut

[Ben Ballard]

iam planting japanese and indian horse chestnut to replace common horse chestnuts i have felled on places on the estate i work at,as not as badly affected by leaf minner,has any one seen bleeding canker on these types ?

Edited January 22, 2009 by Ben Ballard

[David oakman]

No. But to be fair the oldest indian chestnut i have is only 30-40 years old the nuts were brought back from a holiday where they come from.

[Ben Ballard]

cheers mate ,do they have good conkers ive only seen one Japenese horse chestnut before at westonbert arboretum and it had realy good autum colour but didnt think at the time to look a for conker

Edited January 22, 2009 by Ben Ballard

[David oakman]

Yes ben they have good conkers the tree i just told you about has conkers and i have grown them myself and i slip them in new plantations.

[MattyF]

ive seen and worked on plenty of the indian horse chesnuts with it...

[benedmonds]

They've some nice Indian Horse Chestnuts Aesculus indic at Kew. There were loads of big dark black conkers when I was last there. I reckon there harder then the A. hippocastanum ones.

 

http://www.kew.org/plants/trees/indianchestnut.html

 

As I understand, Pseudomonas syringae pv aesculi is now thought to be the cause of bleeding canker killing Europeaen A. hippocastanum. As this is thought to have originated or is found in the native leaves ofA. indic, they should be resistant.

[benedmonds]

ive seen and worked on plenty of the indian horse chesnuts with it...

 

Do you mean the red horse chestnuts..? Aesculus x carnea

[Ben Ballard]

cheers i mate thats good imformation ,i like the photo at kew got lots of flowers on it,i only got 1 indian horse chestnut growing on our park and still very small but have noticed it looks good in autum aswell

[Mesterh]

I thought indian chestnuts didnt produce conkers:confused1:

I must be getting it confused with something else maybe?

[MattyF]

bens right sorry guys its the carnea ive seen of it on.