Roasting chestnuts is a traditional holiday activity. But, if you gathered the nuts yourself make sure they are in fact chestnuts and not horse chestnuts or buckeyes, which are poisonous.

These seeds (also called nuts) are the origin of both of its common names: buckeye and horse chestnut. According to Cal Poly’s Select Tree web page, Native Americans called the seed “hetuck ...

and yellow buckeyes. Horse-chestnut, a native of Asia, was introduced into this country from Europe as an ornamental shade tree. Here in Western North Carolina there are two native species ...

Of the 418,000 accidental toxic-substance exposure calls received by Washington Poison Control from 2000-05, nut cases (horse chestnuts and buckeyes, which are related) accounted for barely 85.

It is part of the Horse-chestnut family. It is sometimes called the ‘fetid buckeye’ because its leaves, when crunched, have an unpleasant smell. This tree is native primarily to the ...

Thunk, rustle, rustle…thud. It’s that time of year when tree nuts are tumbling to the ground. Buckeyes, chestnuts and other tree nuts are beginning to cover lawns, driveways, and fields. The chestnut ...

It’s officially football season now that the Buckeyes have played their first games of the season. It’s also the season when Buckeye fans can plant their own source of buckeyes — a buckeye ...

Your favorite football team was named after Ohio’s state tree, known as the Ohio buckeye tree. Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut ...

One of the most beautiful buckeyes is the Red Horse Chestnut, Aesculus x carnea that is actually a cross between the native red buckeye and the European horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum.