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If this is the same Chestnut Tree that was on our street, it's a very messy tree for an urban environment (massive tree). It would rain baseball sized pods down
by hourislate 5y ago
If this is the same Chestnut Tree that was on our street, it's a very messy tree for an urban environment (massive tree). It would rain baseball sized pods down on cars parked underneath it. It would leave a huge mess on the sidewalks and road every year.
- zwieback 5y agoI think those are horse-chestnuts, different tree and not directly related to the American chestnut. We used to make little figures and animals out of the nuts and some matches in kindergarten.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoNote that horse chestnuts (aka "buckeyes"), besides (as you say) being unrelated to standard chestnuts, are toxic. Just handling them is not a problem, but eating them is definitely bad news. Native Americans used to grind them up and use them to stun/kill fish.
- daveslash 5y agoVery bad news Indeed! Upvote for the PSA word of caution. I had a neighbor years ago who used just a few pieces of one as garnish on a soup. Made him horribly horribly sick; he survived without medical treatment, but attributes that mostly to the very tiny amounts he ingested.
- toolslive 5y agoThey do make really nice finishes for guitars and basses. https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/share-your-buckeye-burl-tops.312953/ https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/share-your-buckeye-burl-...
- zwieback 5y agoWow, I had no idea! I nibbled on them because I thought they were the same as the edible ones but that was a one-time experiment.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoNot to be confused with buckeyes made from peanut butter and chocolate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_candy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckeye_candy
- LeifCarrotson 5y agoHuge messes and baseball-sized pods are characteristic of black walnut trees. Chestnuts are much smaller.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoUnlikely unless you’re over 70, 80 years old and these are childhood memories.
- mmcgaha 5y agoChestnut trees did not die out completely. We had one in the middle of the school playground when I was a kid.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoI know. But that chestnut was probably not an American one.