Is this fruit edible, please?

BlueBelle

According to my plant identifier it’s a Black Walnut

Leaves are completely wrong. Have a look at the close ups on this page full of images

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Double check , our Walnuts all have bright green husks not brown.

Don't eat unless you're absolutely sure, oldgoat!

Now, we have a lovely crop of small mushrooms around our tree .....

Very very different to a supermarket walnut. Enjoy!

I don’t think I have had a fresh walnut!

Pickled walnuts, mmm.

Bingo! Well done BlueBelle!

According to my plant identifier it’s a Black Walnut

Beech nuts?

If all else fails oldgoat, you can upload a photograph of it onto the Woodland Trust "Identify this Tree" app. It's free of charge. And then come back and tell us!

Sweet chestnut tree leaf.........

Durians look similar, with a spikey outer skin but you'd know about it as the smell would strip paint

Horse chestnut leaf.....

They are generally tropical but I'm not sure if rambutans or longans could be grown here more successfully?

They re definitely not conkers

There are different types of lychee, which are grown in this country quite successfully----probably not in the cooler NW where I am, but definitely South.

Horse chestnuts are less prickly than sweet chestnuts.

I tried reverse searching on the photo but it didn't come up with anything remotely like it!
How did you do that, MaizieD?

I still think they're conkers or sweet chestnuts. They will still be immature.

I'm all agog for when you can get one down and open it up for us to have a look at, oldgoat...

No, they're definitely not walnuts. We had a tree in our garden when I was a child**. Walnut husks are smooth and green. The leaves are completely different, too.

I tried reverse searching on the photo but it didn't come up with anything remotely like it!

(**I really, really miss that walnut tree. Fresh walnuts are delicious. Wish I'd planted one where I am 20 years ago. We'd be swimming in walnuts by now )

Definitely not cob nuts. I've got a bag of them that I collected yesterday and they're nothing like the photo. Like Whitewave, I wondered if they could be walnuts.

If it is a Walnut, you will need gloves on to peel it, as the thick husk gives off a sap that stains your hands the same colour as Nicotine does!

If you can break into one they would be easily identifiable.

There's a tree near us but it's in someone's garden; I can't see it from here unfortunately.

They are not spiky enough for conkers, and they are brown, too. The outside of cockers is green.
I think they are going to be walnuts, but have to get help to pick one because I am vertically challenged

I think they are too!