Chestnuts are a kind of food that many people like to eat, and their sweet and sticky taste is deeply liked by many people. It is precisely because of this that there are many stores in China that specialize in buying chestnuts, but the price is relatively expensive, and it is okay to eat once or twice once in a while, and if you eat wages every day, you can't keep it. And in England, at a certain time, the ground is covered with chestnuts, as if you don't want money, but no one picks them up, and when you feed them to the horses, you don't give them to eat.
In England, you can see a lot of chestnuts on the ground, but strangely enough, chestnuts are everywhere but no one picks them up. The reason for this is because these chestnuts are not the chestnut varieties that people like to eat, its name is "horse chestnut", horse chestnut is the fruit of the horse chestnut tree, horse chestnut tree is also called horse chestnut tree, this tree because of its good appearance, the shape of the leaves is beautiful, so Europeans regard this tree as an ornamental tree, so it is very common in Europe.
Don't look at the shape of the horse chestnut resembles a chestnut, it is very different from the chestnut in addition to the shape. Many Chinese said: If you really eat it, there will be an accident, because it contains toxins that cannot be decomposed in the human body, this toxin can break the blood red balls of the human body, and if it is serious, it can directly lead to death. Under normal circumstances, the British take it to feed the horses and do not give people to eat, they are fed to squirrels and horses, squirrels and horses can safely eat this chestnut, and there is no danger.
Direct consumption of horse chestnut will cause harm to the human body, but it is not impossible to eat horse chestnut, as long as the horse chestnut is cooked in alkali water, it can be eaten, and the taste is a bit similar to the chestnut. However, here is still recommended that you do not take too risks, on the one hand, there is no way to know when to cook safely, on the other hand, this tree is used as a greenery, to pick up "things" to eat on exotic streets, very unsightly.
Although the fruit of the horse chestnut tree is poisonous, the horse chestnut tree has many functions, the first of which can be used to make tea leaves, the second flower can be used as a dye, and the third wood can also be used to make furniture and so on. It can be said that it is a tree full of treasures. In Dalian, Shanghai, Qingdao in China, there are also planting horse chestnut trees, but there are still some differences with the British horse chestnut trees, in these city life partners, there is a chance to visit.
The streets of Europe that you often see on the Internet are full of pictures of fallen leaves, most of which are the leaves of horse chestnut trees, because horse chestnut trees are the most common sidewalk trees in Europe, also known as the most beautiful sidewalk trees. Many people also like to use the leaves of horse chestnut trees as specimens. Dear netizens, now you know what the situation is that "chestnuts are all over the uk and no one picks them up"