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Sweet Chestnut Answer. The Horse Chestnut (Aesculus Hippocastanum is the tree that supplies conkers. The Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) sometimes called the Spanish Chestnut supplies the nuts we roast and eat around Christmas.
Yes. A Sweet Chestnut tree produces many things. Seed, wood and a natural habitat for much wildlife.
Castanea Sativa
For outdoor fires, yes.
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Chestnut trees belong to the same family of trees as the oak and beech trees. There are five types of species of chestnuts, European chestnut or the sweet chestnut, Asiatic chestnut which has two species the Japanese and the Chinese chestnut, the American species, and Allegheny Chickapin..
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A chestnut cutter is used to pierce the shell of the chestnut in order to make a vent in the shell for steam to escape while they are roasting. After roasting you can use the chestnut cutter to remove the shell.
You burn it as firewood.
Most woods can, in some way, be used as firewood. I have not come across any wood that I couldn't use as firewood, but some need a year or more to dry out.