The seed in question on my walk this week is a beech nut – perhaps I should say hundreds of beech nuts as the forest floor was covered in them.
Whoops! I have been rightly corrected about them being beech nuts – in fact they are sweet chestnuts . . . but there were lots of beechnuts in the woods as well so maybe I can be forgiven 😉
There are seemingly many more squirrels this year as well, so how many beech nuts go on, or grow on, to become new trees may be in part a result of the the number consumed by the local wildlife.
I think you just answered my question about what the nuts were that I saw yesterday during my walk in the park. 🙂 Thanks!
janet
Thank you. I love the beech nuts. I was in the woods again yesterday and the ground is almost completely covered with them in places!
Or maybe not. I looked them up online and the leaves of the tree don’t look the same. I’ll have to look further.
Aha! It seems they are sweet chestnut according to another friend. As there are also many beech trees/nuts in those woods, I have asked if I have been fooled or are being a fool?
I’ll look at the chestnut idea. Thanks.