Ripe sweet chestnuts, Castanea sativa, lying with leaves on the ground.

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Sweet chestnuts ripen and fall from the tree to the forest floor in Autumn where they spill from their spiky seed cases. They are collected by foragers and roasted to eat.

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Size: 2848px × 4288px
Location: New Forest, Hampshire. UK
Photo credit: © Roger Covey / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: autumn, case, castea, chestnut, chestnuts, edible, forage, foraging, forest, leaves, nut, nuts, ripe, sativa, season, seasonal, seasons, seed, seedcase, spiky, sweet