Nuts of the European sweet chestnut are now sold instead in many stores.
It turned out to be a paste made from sweet chestnuts which looked rather like a dish of worms.
The park is set mostly to open grassland and mixed woodland with many old sweet chestnuts.
Today, among these, oaks and sweet chestnuts are still the most common.
Both are the fruit of the sweet chestnut or Castanea sativa.
Best known are the forests of sweet chestnuts in the area around Lovran.
It had new plants and animals, such as parsley, sweet chestnut and chickens.
Also included with the pines are a number of sweet chestnuts and other trees.
Beech is also common, and sweet chestnut has grown here for many centuries.
It also likes to feed on apples, rowan, and sweet chestnuts.