Horse Chestnuts

Chestnut Horse Description:  Aesculus hippocastanum is a big flowering tree that is native to southeast Europe but has now spread to other parts of Europe and North America and is growing there naturally. It's a popular tree to grow in a garden, and you can often see it along roads and in parks. The horse chestnut tree, also called the buckeye tree, has big nuts that look like sweet chestnuts but are not edible. Extracts, beverages, and skin treatments often utilize horse chestnuts. The horse chestnut tree is 80 feet (25 meters) tall and has groups of 5 to 7 leaves and white flower spikes at the ends of its branches. It is in the family Hippocastanaceae. There are many stories about how the tree got its name, but no one has strongly agreed on one. When the tree was brought to Britain from the Balkans in 1616, it was called "horse chestnut" because the Turks would feed the seeds to their sick horses. Nowadays, cities, private gardens, parks, and streets mostly grow the tree as a decorat