[at-l] what's this plant?

[David Addleton]

With all those leads, I've gone hunting the inet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesculus
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=Aesculus&btnG=Search+Images
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=horse+chestnut&btnG=Search+Images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=hickory&btnG=Search+Images

So, if it's a horse chestnut, I should boil it a few times before I eat it,
or use it for easy fishing . . .
But, if it's a hickory nut, I can chow down . . .

It isn't spiney like the pictures of chestnuts, but then, the chestnuts I
knew in southasia weren't spiney, and looked an awful like the nut in my
picture,
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1274/1398550469_097d850613_o.jpg
And the bush is so small I couldn't figure out how that huge nut grew on it,
but they, whatever they were, were all over Hard Labor Creek State Park last
week-end . . .


On 9/19/07, Lilla Thompson <lthompson at hollins.edu> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't the fruit be spinier?  And isn't it too small to be bearing
> fruit?  Not that I have a better answer...
>
>
>
> I believe it is a horse chestnut.  It is not a regular chestnut.  We
> sometimes use it in landscaping to give rich folks something their
> neighbors don't have.  The botanical name is Aesculus.
>
> Clyde
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Felix J <athiker at smithville.net>
>
> > David Addleton wrote:
> > > This little bush puts out a (relatively) large fruit or nut or
> something (I
> > > didn't cut it open)
> > > Can anyone identify it for me?
> > > http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1274/1398550469_097d850613_o.jpg
> >
> > Well, it appears to be a hickory nut and the leaves look to be hickory
>
> > leaves. I can't tell if it's a shagbark (shellbark) or pignut hickory.
>
> > Though, the leaflets aren't exactly like a hickory...there are usually
>
> > 5, 3 larger and 2 small. And, I'm not sure that a tree that size would
>
> > produce a hickory nut that large. So, though I'm leaning toward it
> > being a hickory, I'm not sure....so, essentially I'm telling you
> > nothing. Then again, it may be a 'southern' thing... Clide, what is
> it?
> >
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