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Tree – Horse Chestnut

Plants – Trees

Angiosperms
   Order – Sapindales
      Family – Sapindaceae (Horse Chestnut)
         Genus – Aesulus

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Grove Park, Doncaster
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Grove Park, Doncaster
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Wentworth
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Wentworth
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Bamford, Derbyshire
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Bamford, Derbyshire
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), Bleeding canker on trunk, Pugney's Country Park

Recent Posts

  • Next Meeting – Sunday May 10th 2026 at Thorpe Marsh NNR for Spring Walk 4 May 2026
  • Next Meeting – Thursday 7th May 2026 to Kings Wood & Gally Hills 4 May 2026
  • Next Meeting – Sunday May 3rd 2026 Dawn Chorus 4.30 am 29 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Sunday 26th April 2026 to Rossington Colliery Tip 21 April 2026
  • Next Meeting – Monday 20th April 2026 to Broomhill Flash 10:30am 14 April 2026

Gallery

Ben Burrell with daughters Miriam & Brenda Grass Snake (Natrix natrix), Lindrick Common.

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Tapinella-atromentosa-Velvet-Rollrim, Barrow Hills NR, Notts. Fig 1 Sandall Beat Wood 1 Dunock-2-1 DSS Summer Programme 1931 - Cover Fox seen east of the Island, Hatfield. Anthocharis cardamines - Orange Tip, Thorne Moor Crassa unitella - Kirk Smeaton Ocypus ophthalmicus - Blue Rove Beetle, Austerfield. seudovadonia livida - Fairy-ring Longhorn, Austerfield
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