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Hi Jan; That will be a chestnut tree. I
think the horse chestnut shell has chemicals toxic to the skin, but not
sure. The horse chestnut has white flowers though, and I think your
flowers come from a regular one. I love the regular chestnuts when
roasted.
----- Original Message -----
From:
b*@cybermesa.com
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 2:46
PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] Help with
mystery nut - part 1
For the sake of comparison, here are a couple of
photos of a buckeye tree in bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens the May just
past. It is likely an Ohio buckeye. I don't think it was
labeled. Someone of the strollers in the garden identified it for
me. I think it is really beautiful. Let's hope your daughter's is
as beautiful.
Betty Gunther
Los Alamos
On 10/20/2012 9:25 AM, Jan
Lauritzen wrote:
Thank you, Peggy. We went to Wikipedia and learned that
they are definitely poisonous. That is one of the reasons I wanted to
identify the nut. I like to know what is unsafe in the
yard.
Thanks
again,
Jan
in Chatsworth
From: dpmallen tds.net d*@tds.net
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October
20, 2012 3:50 AM
Subject:
Re: [iris-photos] Help with mystery nut - part 1
Do not eat the buckeyes - they are poisonous.
Peggy
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Jan
Lauritzen
<j*@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Kent,
Didn't
realize that there was a California Buckeye. My daughter is checking
Google images as I type. She says "There's a really good chance that
you are correct." Ours do not have the spines on the seed pods like
the Western and Ohio seem to have.
Thank
you so much.
Jan
in Chatsworth
From: Kent Pfeiffer <k*@gmail.com>
To: i*@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:00
PM
Subject: Re:
[iris-photos] Help with mystery nut - part 1
It's a buckeye, probably a California Buckeye (Aesculus
californica).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus_californicaOn
10/19/12, Jan Lauritzen <j*@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
All,
>
> My daughter bought a house last June. We have been
watching a tree produce
> what we, at first, thought was some kind
of fruit. Then we thought it might
> be an almond but the leaves
didn't look right. They have been getting
> bigger and bigger and
now are splitting into 3 parts at the end of the
> fruit. Inside is
something which, to me, looks like it resembles some kind
> of
chestnut. However, we are in Southern California and I never even
see
> Chestnuts except a few in the market in
December.
>
>
> Would really like to know what we have.
If you can help, thank you ahead of
> time.
>
>
>
Jan in
Chatsworth
>
