Talk:Aesculus

Name

"Horse-chestnut" or "Horse Chestnut" ? Andy Mabbett 10:39, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Andy - the hyphenated form is preferred, to reduce confusion with chestnuts, but unhyphenated is commonly seen, too. - MPF 12:52, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Injured wind

What does this mean? "horses whose wind is injured". Maybe that could be changed to be more understandable to a wider audience.

Fruit

The article says that the fruit of Aesculus is a nut contained in a husk. However, the nut article says that its fruit is actually the fruit (called the "husk" in the Aesculus article) which contains the "nut". If this were the case, then there would be no true "husk". Is the "nut" of Aesculus just the seed and not the fruit? SCHZMO ✍ 20:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

"Seed vs. Nut" - I'm wondering about the distinction made in the text of this entry. The parenthetical entry implies a false dichotomy, since all nuts are seeds and it isn't an "either/or" situation. There may be a better way to write this, but in the mean time, I'm going to try hotlink the nut reference to the nut entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.76.78 (talk) 07:09, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Disease

Does anyone have more on the disease effecting the trees. All over London and SE England trees appear to be dying (leaves have withered and turned brown). --Vivbaker 21:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Probably Cameraria ohridella leaf-miner - MPF 16:29, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

See 'bleeding canker' in the article. 89.240.14.127 13:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Unclear

"genetic evidence shows that this family, along with the maples (formerly Aceraceae), are better included in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae). Current evidence shows that both Aceraceae and Hippocastanaceae are monophyletic, so they could be kept separate from Sapindaceae"

The first sentence says that Hippocastanaceae actually belong to the Sapindaceae family, while the second one says they should be kept separate. Can someone write this a bit more comprehensibly? --Eleassar ^{my talk} 14:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I've removed it as it wasn't supported by any references (and have also added a couple of references for Sapindaceae) - MPF 00:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Buckeye Photo

I'm amazed that you don't include a photo of an actual "buckeye," per se (i.e., nut from a horse chestnut tree). After all, it's this beautiful and distinctive nut from whence the name buckeye originates, I'm sure. Wouldn't be that hard to include! JCNSmith 22:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Black conkers

I have some black 'conkers'. Are these from the Indian Horse Chestnut? 89.240.14.127 13:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Homeopathy

The homeopathy claims in this article didn't appear to have any current notability - no source from this decade mentions it's use? PouponOnToast (talk) 00:39, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

BTW, I'm fine with the removal after I did the clarification; however, I have seen the dilution mentioned on some external web sites. I'm afraid that eventually it might come back if the pseudoscience claim is used again. ThracianSlave 01:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Trash?

"In Michigan, the name buckeye is also synonymous for Ohio trash." Is this vandalism? 70.241.65.109 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:55, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I think it obviously is, so I've removed it, along with the sentence about 'dying in January' which I'd guess was slipped in with it to lend a bit of false credibility. Romit3 (talk) 19:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Etymology

A common explanation for the name "horse chestnut" is due to the old, horseshoe-shaped leaf scars left behind on branches by fallen leaves. Ebichu63 (talk) 15:50, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Page moves

Someone just moved Aesculus hippocastanum to Horse chestnut tree and now there is a proposal to move Horse chestnut tree to Horse chestnut. Apparently the editors involved are not aware that "horse chestnut" can refer to Aesculus as well as A. hippocastanum. See Talk:Horse_chestnut_tree#Recent_move. --Una Smith (talk) 03:01, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

The relevant talk has been moved to Talk:Aesculus hippocastanum#Recent_move. --Una Smith (talk) 05:12, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Image of pod

Should you find the image fitting, I can offer the following image of a pod (most probably of a Aesculus hippocastanum) which I've released under by-nc-nd. http://www.flickr.com/photos/krissen/6223945507/ /kristian (talk) 19:41, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Use of British Isles

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