Each spring, a horse chestnut tree on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus puts on a floral display that stops people, even some of the multitasking undergraduates, in their tracks. Th… ...

Horse chestnut trees are native to the mountains of the Middle East and Balkans but are now grown worldwide. ... (unlike edible chestnuts), ...

The edible nuts of the tree grow in a woody pod which ranges in size from around 5 to nearly 12 inches long. The nutritious nuts inside are about the size and shape of a cashew.

Horse chestnuts Native to southeastern Europe, the horse chestnut tree produces bitter, toxic seeds. The tree grows from 50 to 75 feet tall and produces white flowers in the spring.

For the record, and to save a few calls, horse chestnuts are not edible. Q: I have been trying to reach the Seattle Tree Fruit Society to order more of the maggot barriers you wrote about in April ...

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree native to the Balkan ... The post 7 Potential Benefits of Horse Chestnut Extract ... however, have a cousin that, while they may not be edible, ...

Another difference: Chestnuts are starchy (and edible). Horse chestnuts taste horribly bitter. In a word: inedible. Horse chestnuts, Mead adds, pretty much give themselves away with their nasty scent.

HORSE-CHESTNUT trees are in fruit and a fresh, plump, lustrous brown conker peeping out of its spiky case at this time of year is a lovely find. When it falls from the tree, the leathery husk that ...

Edible chestnuts are bilaterally flattened, and horse chestnuts are flattened on one side only. If the husks still are on the nut or the nuts still on the tree, differentiating is easier.

The Horse Chestnut took on its Autumn look as early as July in some places. Brian Bailey set out to investigate why, with help from a man who knows all about trees, the former Head Forester at ...