Sweet chestnuts. Ripe fruit of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree inside their open fruit casing (prickly) where it has fallen on a forest floo

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Sweet chestnuts. Ripe fruit of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) tree inside their open fruit casing (prickly) where it has fallen on a forest floor. Photographed in Dorset, UK, in September.

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Photo credit: © COLIN VARNDELL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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