Smooth conkers
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Smooth conkers by Bob Harvey as part of the Geograph project.
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Smooth conkers
Image: © Bob Harvey Taken: 5 Sep 2022
This is the leaf and fruit of the left hand tree seen in Image The leaves are prematurely brown, but it has produced an abundance of nuts. Rather oddly for the species, the fruit cases round the conkers are not spiky.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.770799
Longitude
-0.389934