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. There ...

Things To Do Home and Garden The Garden Coach: Don’t mistake (toxic) horse chestnuts for the edible kind A California buckeye blossom. (John Rusk/Wikimedia Commons) By Patrice Hanlon, correspondent ...

Thank you kindly. — Jeanette and Joseph Dear Jeanette and Joseph: The tree is a native California buckeye, Aesculus californica. In other parts of the country the fruit is called horse chestnuts.

A: I am going to guess that you have one buckeye tree and one horse-chestnut. Both are in the Aesculus genus, but horse-chestnut leaves are much larger than the leaves of buckeye trees.

Kids love the shiny buckeye seeds of the horse chestnut, and the long, bean-like seed pods of the catalpa, but for many gardeners, they just mean work. There are better choices.

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Agriculture and natural resources officials say Wednesday the beetle infests maple, birch, elm, willow, buckeye, horse chestnut and other hardwood trees.