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To: moose07
Actually both are related and both are inedible...

Buckeye = Aesculus glabra
Horse chestnut = Aesculus hippocastanum

Ohio Buckeye


1,140 posted on 03/21/2013 12:11:47 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NoCmpromiz
Buckeye = Aesculus glabra
Horse chestnut = Aesculus hippocastanum

That settles it then....Similar. lol

1,142 posted on 03/21/2013 12:16:00 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. liberals and logic: Never confuse the two! Hi MI# !)
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To: NoCmpromiz; moose07

I played with them as a kid, since the trees were so common.


1,147 posted on 03/21/2013 12:24:54 PM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: NoCmpromiz

IIRC, the buckeye can be made edible by leaching out the toxins.


1,167 posted on 03/21/2013 1:17:17 PM PDT by null and void (If the government is so worried about civil disturbance, why are they working so hard to disturb us?)
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