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Blaze
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La forêt de Brocéliande
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RobertArthur
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Autumn's in the air, silence all around, the trees still green, the leaves high up in the trees, unaware of their fall.
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Lori
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Lori
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That's a lot of chestnuts ! Is that mushroom edible? We have a bunch in our garden, but I don't dare eat them. I have no idea how to identify edible mushrooms.
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RobertArthur
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@ Lori, I'm afraid that all those chestnuts lying on the grass at a motorway rest area near Charleroi have been swept down prematurely by the recent storms.
And what else could be seen there, on the trunk of a sawed-off tree, is, in my opinion, a wood fungus. I have my doubts about its edibility... But to be honest, I am far from being a mushroom expert. Nor have I volunteered to try it out in what is, from a medical point of view, an uncontrolled experiment.
And what else could be seen there, on the trunk of a sawed-off tree, is, in my opinion, a wood fungus. I have my doubts about its edibility... But to be honest, I am far from being a mushroom expert. Nor have I volunteered to try it out in what is, from a medical point of view, an uncontrolled experiment.
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RobertArthur
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@ Lori, they were miniature chestnuts, by the way, which I think fell a month too early on Belgian soil. Compare them with what was on offer this morning in the U-express (Super U) from French soil. At least five times as big. I would have liked to add: I stand to be corrected. Which probably has just happened: the OH pointed out that not all chestnuts are the same. I didn' t bother to have a look at the trees and their leaves to answer a question I was not aware of yesterday. Confused I am. Back to the supermarket, buy a new fuse.
And first back to the streets of a little French village where silence is golden, not only on a Sunday afternoon. In several gardens large chestnut trees who were kind enough to share some of their months of hard work with interested passers-by on one of the few streets. Time passes a little more slowly there and a very large and old tree in the middle of the village is a silent witness of what happend the last two centuries. Incidentally it is only in the last few months that all the houses there have been given their own numbers. Today: what a day for an autumn daydream.
Back to sizes: more than a small difference. Picture please, so that the real experts here on the forum can share their insights.
And first back to the streets of a little French village where silence is golden, not only on a Sunday afternoon. In several gardens large chestnut trees who were kind enough to share some of their months of hard work with interested passers-by on one of the few streets. Time passes a little more slowly there and a very large and old tree in the middle of the village is a silent witness of what happend the last two centuries. Incidentally it is only in the last few months that all the houses there have been given their own numbers. Today: what a day for an autumn daydream.
Back to sizes: more than a small difference. Picture please, so that the real experts here on the forum can share their insights.
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Spectrum
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There is a difference between species of "Sweet Chestnuts" one variety has just one nut the other has two or three smaller nuts, we have a 80+year old Chestnut tree but with the smaller nuts. The photo looks like the smaller "Sweet Chestnuts" and the "Conker" type which tend to be round and which are poisonous.