I have two chestnut trees in southwest Iowa, so one can assume they would also grow in Illinois.
Conkers come from the horse chestnut.
Aesculus hippocastanum the Horse Chestnut.
No. Chestnuts are nuts that grow on trees. Water chestnut is a type of vegetable.
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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..
As all chestnut trees are, yes.
The cause of the loss of chestnut trees were pollution and cutting them for "fuel".
Oak trees do not suffer from Chestnut blight a disease of chestnuts.
The Common Horse Chestnut , Aesculus hippocastanum, is deciduous.
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