Horse Chestnut tree (UEB Uncontracted)

By: Rnib Bookshare

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Synopsis: In this image of a horse chestnut tree, the trunk stems from the bottom centre of the page and the leafy branches are in the middle of the page. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. There is a picture of a horse chestnut leaf in the top left and a picture of a horse chestnut in the top right of the page. The leaf stem is to the top right of the leaf itself. The nut is similarly positioned. For scale there is a 'stick man' representing the height of an adult person in the bottom right of the page. The horse chestnut was introduced to Britain 400 years ago. It is now a common sight and noticeable as it is often the first deciduous tree to leaf in the spring and the first to colour in autumn. Its inedible nuts housed in spiky husks are used as conkers in the well-known game. It is not especially long-lived, rapidly decaying and collapsing after a hundred or so years.