My Nemesis Returns

[xraytheenforcer]

Yes, my eternal nemesis, the Horse chestnut tree (aka Kastanienbaum or Aesculus hippocastanum) is in bloom, and my sinuses are letting me know this fact rather forcefully. Ugh. Here's to a week of drugging myself to the gills, then all will be well again. Stupid trees.

Comments

[kama-police.livejournal.com]

weren't chestnuts supposed to have some sort of a disease that will make them extinct in the next decade or so?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

THERE IS A GOD!!!!

[skylarkthered.livejournal.com]

That's the American Chestnut (http://www.acf.org/). They were once widespread here. They were a staple in native diet and their wood was used for a variety of things (as well as just being beautiful). Quite sad really. :( Other species of chestnut are blight resistant.