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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing
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To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (783)9/4/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (1) of 3495
 
More than you wanted to know.

What type of tree in the midwest produces large green nuts?

I decided the trees were buckeyes. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica the fruits of buckeyes have hard leathery husks, are smooth to weakly spiny and turn brown in the fall. The large green nuts I saw didn't have any spines. Where as Encyclopedia Britannica says the fruit of horse chestnuts have spines. Encyclopedia Britannica also says, "buckeyes any of about 13 trees and shrubs belonging to the genus Aesculus, in the horse chestnut family." So yes the previous answers were right. The common name for horse chestnut trees "is said to come from Turkey, where the nuts were fed to horses to cure broken wind". Please don't ask me what that means.

I hope the type of buckeye Ohio chose for a state tree are better looking than the trees I saw.
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