There are four different varieties ofedible chestnuts : American , European , Formosan and Japanese . The chestnut tree is have-to doe with to the beech and the oak tree tree . chestnut used to be the principal amylum raw material in Europe until the potato was present . When comestible chestnut tree are boiled the nuts have a similar texture to spud , with a gratifying barmy relish . Now chestnuts are not as democratic as they once were , but there are commercial-grade farms to furnish the demand . Mature American chestnut trees are rare in the natural state due to infestation by the chestnut blight in the other 20th 100 .
To identify an eatable chestnut tree in the wild is not very surd ; you just want to know what you are looking for . shammer such as gymnastic horse chestnut tree and Ohio Aesculus hippocastanum , though similar in appearance , are not related to eatable chestnut ; these seeds contain a poisonous substance in their raw state , so it is crucial to be capable to recognise them from edible chestnuts .
Step 1
Identify the tree that the chestnut has fall from as a chestnut tree . It will have long oval leave that are xanthous green , and yellow in the fall . On the folio there will be pocket-sized meat hooks that swerve up all along the edge of the leaf . Ohio buckeye tree have similar foliage , but the buckeye leave are usually group together in a fan of five leave and turn orange in the fall . A sawbuck chestnut tree has a debauchee shaped folio , and these leaves group together in a fan of about seven foliage .
Step 2
follow how the fruit attend from the tree . eatable chestnuts often cling in pairs or in threes or cluster .
Step 3
Look at the case the chestnut tree is wrapped in when hanging on the tree diagram . An eatable chestnut tree is wrap in a spiny pillow slip that is called a burr . The spinal column are tenacious and fine . If it is an Ohio Ohioan , the outer casing has many thick , knobby spur . A horse chestnut tree ’s eggshell resembles the Ohio buckeye ’s but it does not have as many branch line .
Step 4
withdraw the chestnut from the burr and look at the shape of the yield . An eatable chestnut will have a shiny brown color , a flat bottom and a tip on the top . Non - edible chestnuts will not have this point at the top .
Tip
Do not jumble edible chestnut with sawbuck chestnuts or buckeyes , which are both uneatable . A Formosan chestnut tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is not the same thing as a water system chestnut . A water chestnut tree is a native Asian aquatic works with corms on the solution that are harvested and used in many Asiatic saucer .
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