buckeye/horsechestnut (Aesculus), chestnut (Castanea), or sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua). All are common landscape trees and produce spiky pods around their seeds. The spines help protect the ...

The fast-growing chestnut trees will be ready to produce nuts before they turn five. Harvesting chestnuts is no easy feat, as they're usually enclosed in spiny burrs, seed pods laced with prickly ...