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Date Photo Taken: 09/29/2012
Location: Sandy Springs. GA
Posted By: johnwargo

Notes:

Looks like a chestnut but outer green pod is smooth, Three nuts to a pod. Are they edible?

1. stone Unregistered says:

   Buckeye
   I wouldn’t eat them.
   The Native Americans used to fish with them, by casting the powdered nuts on the water… Made the fish easy to collect.
   The Confederate drs. Are said to have used them in surgery, as an opium substitute, during the blockade…
   They switched back to opium when the blockade was lifted…

   October 1st, 2012 at 7:41 am

2. sumac Registered says:

   I also think buckeye. The shrubs have beautiful flowers in spring.

   October 6th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

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