Is this fruit edible, please?

We used to live in a house with a large walnut tree, and although most years it produced a good crop thanks to the squirrels we barely had a look in. Anyone who hasn’t tried fresh walnuts, Waitrose sell them usually towards to end of September, they’re called wet walnuts and are delicious. They look a bit grubby. Be sure to peel the bitter skin off the actual nut. Worth the effort!

looks like beech.

I think you will just find they are horse chestnuts and definitely not edible.

Yes, they are.

oldgoat we hope you post again today soon!

Callistemon

It's a Buckeye Tree
Of the genus Aesculus, which includes Horse Chestnut, Sweet Chestnut,
Of the Sapindaceae (soapberry) family which includes lychees, rambutans etc.

If correct, and having compared photos it looks like it to me, then the fruits are poisonous to cattle and humans. They contain tannic acid.

Conker / horse chestnut

Looks like a conker to me.

Definitely not a medlar. Different shape of fruit altogether. We grow medlars in our garden, and had the plants from a trusted specialist supplier of fruit trees.

How about contacting Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time programme, and sending them the picture?

Looks like a medlar to me. If so, you can make jelly with them.

I think it could be Aesculus hybridus which is a hybrid chestnut. Ive seen it at Waterperry Gardens near Oxford. All the appearances of a Horse Chestnut in terms of leaves etc but the fruits do not have prickles.

I asked a tree expert.

It's a Buckeye Tree
Of the genus Aesculus, which includes Horse Chestnut, Sweet Chestnut,
Of the Sapindaceae (soapberry) family which includes lychees, rambutans etc.

Perhaps Oldgoat has sampled it which is why there's no answer

It is Indian horse chestnut, Aesculus Indica. Not edible.

For heaven’s sake oldgoat, pick one whack it open and tell us what’s inside. No matter if it’s not ripe. The suspense is unbearable ?

It is a variety of horse chestnut.

No need to SHOUT MaizieD

I may have found it...do you recall if it had pink flowers in spring?

Red Horse-chestnut or eisculus carnea

Why don't you take a piece to a garden centre and see if they can identify it for you.

I'm laughing too but don't know why!

It's poisonous oldgoat!
If it is thst.

It's not beech, they are smaller. We had a beech tree in the grounds of our school and we used to eat the beech nuts. They're mildly toxic, but I remember we thought we could get out of lessons if we were sick .
No H&S in those days.

Not a walnut - I have a tree here and now!

Callistemon

Is it a Buckeye tree?
Similar to a horse chestnut but the casings of the nuts are ore yellow brown. The leaves are like a horse chestnut, palmate with a spread of five leaves.

They are poisonous.

Oh gosh, Callistomen! For some weird reason that has made me laugh.

I do hope we get a firm identification soon...

More yellow-brown, not green like a horse chestnut.

Is it a Buckeye tree?
Similar to a horse chestnut but the casings of the nuts are ore yellow brown. The leaves are like a horse chestnut, palmate with a spread of five leaves.

They are poisonous.

Also agree it’s horse chestnut.