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- The other kind of chestnut is called
sweet chestnut
. It is not related to this tree
A
horse chestnut
(
Aesculus hippocastanum
), also known as the
horse-chestnut
,
buckeye
,
conker tree
, or
Spanish chestnut
, is a large
deciduous
tree
. It is native to southern
Europe
, in the
Balkans
. It is often grown in temperate climates. It can grow up to 36 metres tall. The name of the tree (and the whole
genus
of similar trees) is because its fruit, the
conker
, was used to treat
horses
, against
cough
and some
parasite
worms
.
Horse chestnuts are not edible for humans. The trees are not closely related to
sweet chestnuts
.