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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On 2014-06-07 5:57 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
> > >In the early 1900's the chestnut blight killed all of the trees
> > >in North America.
> >
> > Now we have different varieties grown in the US.
> >
> If I liked them there are lots of them around here. The horse chestnuts
> were flowering last week. Some time in the fall there will be chestnuts
> on the roads and the road allowance. You just have to get them before
> the squirrels run away with them or the cars run them over.

Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum) with large flowers and a
lobed leaf are poisonous, they are not the European edible chestnuts
(Castanea sativa). Completely different nut.

American chestnuts are different again (Castanea dentata.

Janet UK