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[andrewaylett]

Conkers are horse chestnuts, rather than sweet chestnuts. Similar name, unrelated tree.

[klondike_klive → andrewaylett]

Is it really unrelated? The leaves and nuts seem so similar.

[kube-system → klondike_klive]

Wikipedia indicates that they are a different genus, family, and order, so they are pretty much related in the way that they are both flowering plants.

So they're kind of related like humans are related to weasels, because they're both mammals.