And in the fall, the tree produces inedible nuts that children love to play games with. One game, in particular, conkers, stretches back hundreds of years. There's an entire tradition in Great Britain built around preparing and playing with your horse chestnut nut (conker).
What a lot of history rolled into one majestic tree.
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This is one unusual named tree for me- thanks for sharing Alana. Are the chestnuts roasted and eaten?
ReplyDeleteAlas, the chestnuts on these trees are not edible. What a shame! A blight took all our native edible chestnuts years ago - they are trying to reestablish with hybrids, but it will be a while.
DeleteI have never heard about Horse chestnut, though we enjoyed the chestnuts while travelling in UK
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoyed my picture.
DeleteUh oh. I can just picture kids throwing inedible nuts at each other.
ReplyDeletePerhaps not the best choice for a school yard tree.
DeleteI have never heard of that tree but know that there are games around the fruit and that the leaves are so big, I am intrigued. Thank you for joining Alana. Really appreciate it :)
ReplyDeleteI'm having a good time, Parul. Thank you for maintaining the meme.
DeleteHorse Chestnut is very commonly heard and spoken about in the UK, where I lived for close to ten years. There's so much history to the tree...conkers being an oft heard word... Glad you shared this pic...brought back so many lovely memories for me!
ReplyDeleteThanks for such an informative post Alana. I have heard of horse chestnut but presumed it was edible like other varieties of chestnut. Interesting to know the history behind the games kids play too.
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