The horse-chestnut or conker tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) is
the first tree in our forest that losts its leaves in autumn (actually even in
August), but it is the first one having them back.
Last Monday
Last Wednesday
Last Friday
The common name
"horse-chestnut" (often unhyphenated) is reported as having
originated from the erroneous belief that the tree was a kind of chestnut (though
in fact only distantly related), together with the observation that eating the
fruit cured horses of chest complaints
despite this plant being poisonous. This tree species is native to the Pindus
Mountains mixed forests and Balkan mixed forests.
One horse-chestnut tree is
famous in Geneva and called the official
horse-chestnut because the first leaf bud burst marks the beginning of
spring every year.
Another famous horse-chestnut
tree that lived in the city center of Amsterdam used to be called The Anne Frank tree
(Dutch: Anne Frankboom)
because she mentioned it in The Diary of a Young Girl.
More trees of the
Sant valley
Miracle of Spring :), Tamas
RépondreSupprimerHello Tamas, I wish you were here! This week the beeches have their new leaves. I will post on this in the coming days.
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