Saturday, 27 September 2008

Conkers to Conk Out?

It appears (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/27/1) that the Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is doomed. A leaf miner from the continent has caused a bacterial infection that destroys the trees.

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