Origin: Balkans (Greece – Albania)
Family: Hippocastanaceae
English name: Horse-chestnut
French name: Marronnier commun
Italian name: Ippocastano
Spanish name: Castaño de Indias
Description
| When they fall, the leaf stalks of this tree leave a scar on the twig, which resembles an inverted horseshoe with nail holes. The conkers that grow on this tree used to be ground up and fed to horses to cure coughs, and could be the origin of the tree's name. |
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