LONDON (AP) — A British chestnut-whacking champion was cleared Monday of cheating after an investigation into alleged ...

The chestnuts of A. hippocastanum, otherwise known as conkers, are the defining feature of this tree. The Turks and ancient Greeks are known to have used the chestnuts to treat horses for overexertion ...

horse chestnuts - also known as conkers. Wild British sweet chestnuts are not fully ripe until they fall in large numbers in late October. Look for the glint of shiny dark brown nuts; paler nuts ...

One final tip is to look at the tree from which your conker fell – in particular the size of the tree and the colour of the leaves. Horse chestnut trees can become infested by a moth called the ...

Weizmann, the leading Zionist and later the first president of Israel, devised a process to extract the solvent not only from maize but also from horse chestnuts - conkers. There were factories at ...