{"id":20633,"date":"2020-02-15T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2020-02-15T10:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:06:31","slug":"fascinating-facts-about-horse-chestnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/fascinating-facts-about-horse-chestnut\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Facts about Horse Chestnut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Interesting Facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Best known for the production of &#8216;conkers&#8217;. The spiky seed shell contains a shiny nut. The nut is threaded on to a string and the opponents conker is flicked until one breaks leaving a winner. Some conkers are treated with vinegar of other tricks to harden them for competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20639\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/799px-Conkers_Abjat-sur-Bandiat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/799px-Conkers_Abjat-sur-Bandiat.jpg 666w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/799px-Conkers_Abjat-sur-Bandiat-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to chemical saponin in the nut they have historically been used for washing clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Spiders and other creatures are frightened off by the saponins<\/li>\n<li>The flowers are quite striking and form\u00c2\u00a0 attractive pyramid shapes, referred to as\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;candles&#8217;, up in the branches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Botanic Facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Trees can be over 100 feet tall and long lived up to 250 years.<\/li>\n<li>The palmate leaves can be disfigured\u00c2\u00a0 by leaf miner moths.<\/li>\n<li>They provide heavy shade and little will grow directly beneath them.<\/li>\n<li>Germination and initial growth can be quite rapid.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\">Aesculus hippocastanum<\/span> or Horse-Chestnut flowers are white but there is a red hybrid <span class=\"st\">Aesculus<\/span> carnea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Facts Best known for the production of &#8216;conkers&#8217;. The spiky seed shell contains a shiny nut. The nut is threaded on to a string and the opponents conker is flicked until one breaks leaving a winner. Some conkers are treated with vinegar of other tricks to harden them for competition. Due to chemical saponin in the nut they have historically been used for washing clothes. Spiders and other creatures are frightened off by the saponins The flowers are quite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/fascinating-facts-about-horse-chestnut\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20641,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions\/20641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}