whats the difference between a conker and a chestnut ??

Question

can conkers be eaten like chestnuts.???

Answer 1

no, you cannot eat conkers, but you can chestnuts, they are smaller

Answer 2

In the context you are asking, a conker is the fruit of the Horse Chestnut and is not edible. The chestnut which can be eaten is form a different tree.

Answer 3

Conkers are from Horse Chestnut trees and are poisonous if eaten, the edible chestnut is from the Sweet Chestnut tree

Answer 4

Conkers will really give you a bad stomach because they are inedible! Chestnuts are delicious. Chestnuts have a pointed bit at the bottom whereas conkers are rounded.

Oh yes, and they don't conkers in Asda.

Answer 5

The Conker comes from the Horse-Chestnut Tree...

The Chestnut comes from the Sweet Chestnut Tree..

They may as well both be inedible... because they are both vile!!!!

Answer 6

A conker is a horse chestnut, the other is a sweet chestnut. You cannot eat a horse chestnut, but you can a sweet chest nut if you roast it. It tastes like potatoes!

Answer 7

Conkers are from horse chestnut trees, chestnuts that we eat are sweet chestnuts, they are smaller, and have a much pricklier casing, but are from the same family

Answer 8

Conker is the name used in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies for the nuts of the Common Horse-chestnut tree, when used in a game traditionally played by children, Conkers. The name comes from the nineteenth-century dialectal word conker meaning snail-shell (related to French conque meaning a conch), as the game was originally played using snail shells. The name may also be influenced by the verb conquer, as the game was also called conquerors. Conkers are also known regionally as "obblyonkers", "cheggies" or "cheesers". The first recorded game of Conkers using horse chestnuts was on the Isle of Wight in 1848. Until then, children used snail shells or hazelnuts.

In 1965 the World Conker Championships were set up in Ashton (near Oundle) Northamptonshire, England, and still take place on the second Sunday of October every year. In 2004, an audience of 5,000 turned up to watch more than 500 competitors from all over the world slug it out.

In 1993 ex-Python Michael Palin was disqualified from the World Conker Championships for baking his conker and soaking it in vinegar.

In 1999, the British charity ActionAid applied for a patent on hardening conkers, in protest at the patenting of life forms by large companies.

In 2000 a survey of British schools showed that many were not allowing children to play Conkers as headteachers were afraid of the legal consequences if children were injured while playing the game. In 2004 a headmaster was reported to be outfitting pupils with goggles to play the game. This in turn prompted DJs on BBC Radio 1 to start their own Radio 1 Conker Championships. Top Gear later did a show where they played a game of conkers using cranes instead of string, and mobile homes instead of conkers making the comment as they put on the goggles joking "I now feel perfectly happy about being hit in the face by a caravan".

Chestnut (Castanea), including the chinkapin, is a genus of eight or nine species of trees and shrubs in the beech family Fagaceae, native to warm temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts produced by these trees. Most are large trees to 20-40 m tall, but some species (the chinkapins) are smaller, often shrubby. All are deciduous.

The leaves are simple, ovate or lanceolate, 10-30 cm long and 4-10 cm broad, with sharply pointed, widely-spaced teeth, with shallow rounded sinuses between. The flowers are catkins, produced in mid summer; they have a heavy, unpleasant odour (Bean 1970). The fruit is a spiny cupule 5-11 cm diameter, containing one to seven nuts. Chestnut trees thrive on acidic soils, such as soils derived from granite or schist, and do not grow well on alkaline soils such as limestone. When wanting to grow chestnut trees on such soils, the practice was to graft them onto oak rootstocks.

Neither the horse chestnut (family Sapindaceae) nor the water chestnut (family Cyperaceae) is closely related to the chestnut, though both are so named for producing similar nuts. The name Castanea comes from an old Latin name for the sweet chestnut.

Answer 9

You can eat chestnuts.a conker will break ya knuckles if swung hard enough.lol. Jeez that brings back some memories.lol
Ya cant eat conkers cos they make you ill

Answer 10

Whats a conker? think pee wee herman played with a conky is it the same?