Woodlawn History Trail

Horse Chestnut

Horse Chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
Native to southeastern Europe

Horse chestnuts are poisonous to humans, but were historically used in folk medicine. The nuts are also used in the traditional children’s game “conkers.”
(Image: Aesculus hippocastanum fruit/Courtesy of Andrew Dunn/Wikimedia Commons/Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0)