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  • Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse chestnut)
  • Chestnut's horse's fore-hooves
  • Aesculus hippocastanum (H. chestnut fruits)
  • Ming herbal (painting): Water chestnut
  • Castanea sativa (Sweet or Spanish chestnut)
  • Chestnut's head with star and whorls
  • A Chestnut horse's head - fleshmarks
  • A Chestnut horse's neck - whorls
  • A Chestnut overgrown on the leg.
  • Full-length portrait of a Chestnut horse
  • Portrait of a Chestnut - ringworm ?
  • Right side view of a Chestnut, with white
  • Rear view of a Chestnut horse, with white
  • A head-on view of a Chestnut horse
  • Leaf of Japanese horse chestnut (Aesculus turbinata). Watercolour.
  • Left side view of a Chestnut horse - whorl
  • Portrait of a Chestnut foal, with a man standing
  • Left side view of a Chestnut foal: the apparent
  • The Chestnut Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: a horse and carriage in the foreground. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Spanish chestnut (Castanea sativa): leafy and flowering twigs. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • Seven leaves of different forms, including orange tree, vine, hazel, oak, oleander, horse chestnut and elder. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Rodgersia aesculifolia Batalin Saxifraginaceae Chestnut-leaved Rodgersia. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: Northern China. Named for Rear Admiral John Rodgers (1812-1882), American naval officer who commanded the Pacific expedition 1852-1856 when the genus was first discovered. Used as a Traditional Chinese Medicine for rheumatism, bronchitis, dysentery, asthma, and gastritis. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Two water chestnuts (Eleocharis dulcis) and a root of Shan kui. Watercolour.
  • A woman holds a pan of chestnuts over a blazing brazier. Coloured etching.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.
  • A Neapolitan woman has a cauldron of hot chestnuts in a basket to sell. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello and Bianchi.
  • Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.
  • Spanish amulets; vegetable products. Entada seeds; mucuna seeds; horse-chestnuts; pair of date stones with stone beads and tooth; 2 hazlenuts (formerly 3); hazlenut; bottle containing flowers; 2 nuts.