RE: My very first "what is it" post

Ohio Buckeye

buckeye would be correct

Yes, Ohio Buckeye. I don't think the wood is particularly great firewood. I tink you can grow them simply by pushing nuts into the ground. I am not sure if the nuts will sprout this fall or wait until spring. I'd start a several nuts in the place you want the tree to be and thin them down to the best one some time next summer.

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I cannot speak for the BTU's, but I sure wouldnt call it an ornamental, or use it as one.

firefighterjake said:

Found this tree-laden tree near our fire museum . . . I think it's a chestnut of some sort . . . just not sure what type.

Also I was wondering if a) the tree is any good in terms of BTU, ornamental, other uses, etc. (not that I'll be cutting down this tree on the museum's front lawn) and b) is growing this as easy as plunking a seed into the ground . . . or are there any special considerations (i.e. some oaks need to "over winter" before they'll grow.)

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Mary Jane

Have you ever heard the old saying if you put a buckeye in your pocket it will bring you good luck. Try it.

Buckeye.
May it provide you many years of good luck

firefighterjake said:

Buckeye = horse chestnut????

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No

You have an Ohio Buckeye - Aesculus glabra. Horsechestnut is a related but different tree - Aesculus hippocastanum. Neither one is native to Maine, so it must have been planted. Midwesterners are often sort of anti-buckeye because they are common there and can be sort of weedy and useless, but it is an interesting tree if you ask me. The flowers are pretty but the tree is non-descript. I think the nuts are sort of edible the way acorns are sort of edible - you have to rinse or cook out some nasty compounds to make them edible.

coltfever said:

Have you ever heard the old saying if you put a buckeye in your pocket it will bring you good luck. Try it.

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Had one in my pocket and didn't work for me, or maybe it did! I lived through a major motorcycle crash....teenager ran me over...

We hate and I mean it when we say hate buckeyes around here that dispicible college football program, GO BLUE!

Jags said:

Drop the nuts into small holes at the same time that the tree would naturally drop them.

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Sounds kinda dirty dosent it?

the nuts are poison don't eat them. See ya Nov 24, GO BUCKS

coltfever said:

Have you ever heard the old saying if you put a buckeye in your pocket it will bring you good luck. Try it.

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Never worked for me.

Really theres no good use for a buckeye

I've only seen one around here. I definitely would not want one in a yard. Worse for cleaning up than a weeping willow.

The chestnut trees we saw everywhere in NE Wisconsin had nuts like that but the husks had thorny spines all over them. Squirrels were all over them in autumn and planted hundreds of nuts every year before the ground froze. New chestnut trees sprouting the next spring everywhere.

etiger2007 said:

Really theres no good use for a buckeye

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That's for sure!! Go BLUE

I planted a horse chestnut when I was a kid and it sprouted but something dug it up , probably a squirrel. Horse chestnuts got these sticky things (hope thats technical enough) on them when they blossomed and would fall to the ground and our dog would always get them stuck in his fur.
I know you don't have a horse chestnut there but they might be related.