Their equinal medicinal use, in conjunction with the leaf scars which resemble a horseshoe, is regarded as the Horse-chestnut’s namesakes. The British schoolyard game of “conkers” is the most famous ...

leaf scars are v-shaped with 3 bundle scars; slightly stalked lateral buds. Buds – Imbricate with reddish scales; slightly stalked lateral buds; terminal buds clustered at tip of branch. Fruit – ½ to ...

A tree surgeon in Hiroshima lovingly treats trees that live on around 8 decades after the A-bomb devastation. He intentionally leaves their scars intact as some of them near the end of their lives.