Horse chestnut, chestnut tree, chestnut white [4] [5] Aesculus hippocastanum L. - tree species from the soapstone family. It comes from the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows very rarely in forests and is considered a species vulnerable to extinction. It was spread during the Turkish expansion in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries and is now commonly grown on this and other continents. It is planted mainly in urbanized areas and along the roads as a decorative and shadowy tree. Due to the low-value wood, it does not matter in forest management. It is also used as a medicinal plant, cosmetics, honey, formerly made from seeds of glue and used as a feed. Since the end of the twentieth century, significant damage to the cultivation of this species makes the chestnut stunted - a small butterfly, whose larvae feed in chestnut leaves, invading the European continent. The threat of this species is also growing with other pathogens.

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