You probably can already picture what a lone Buckeye nut looks like ... No part of the Ohio buckeye tree, even the leaves and bark, is edible. If ingested, it is highly toxic to the human body ...

Edible uses: The white starchy material inside ... which have a double-layered nut shell like hickory, but buckeye nuts are poisonous. Hickory nuts have a multi-chambered inner nutshell (like ...

Ohio is called the "Buckeye State," and the nut is the Ohio State University mascot ... Slightly poisonous, they are edible once heated and leached, but also can be roasted, peeled and then ...

But, if you gathered the nuts yourself make sure they are in fact chestnuts and not horse chestnuts or buckeyes, which are poisonous. There are differences in chestnuts and horse chestnuts/buckeyes.

What is much better documented than the good luck: Like the native buckeyes, horse chestnuts are poisonous if eaten, and they should never be confused with the edible nuts of the true chestnuts.