Scientific Name:	Aesculus chinensis
Pronunciation:	ESS-kew-lus chye-NEN-sis
Common Name:	Chinese horse chestnut
Family Name:	Sapindaceae
Plant Type:	Tree - deciduous
Key ID Features:	Leaves palmately compound with 5 elliptic-obovate leaflets up to 20 cm long, bright green in spring; flowers in panicles to 40 cm long; fruit 2 cm wide smooth capsule that splits along carpel lines to release brown seed. Winter ID: buds brown and sticky, opposite; leaf scar large, with 7 distinct bundle scars.
Course(s):	not used (off campus)

Habit: Open, Upright Form: Round Texture: Coarse Mature Size: Height: 22 - 30m Spread: 15 - 25m Growth Rate: Moderate Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China (N. China) Hardiness Rating: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 C) Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade Soil/ Growing Medium: Well-drained Water Use: Moderate Landscape Uses: Specimen plant, Spring interest, Summer interest (Caution: poisonous parts) Additional Info: Google

Leaf Morphology: Glossary Form: Compound Arrangement: Opposite Texture/ Venation: Heavily veined, Palmate venation Surfaces: Compound Leaf: Digitate (palmate) Colour in Fall: Brown, Yellow Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Elliptic, Obovate Apices: Acuminate Bases: Cuneate Margins: Double serrate Additional Info: leaflets 13 - 30 cm long

Inflorescence Type: Floriferous, Panicle-like, Thyrse Flower Morphology: Flowers perfect Number of Petals: 4 Corolla Shape: Tubular Ovary Position: Superior Colour (petals): Showy, White, (pink and yellow spots on some petals) Flower Time at Peak: Jun, Jul Additional Info: 20 to 50 florets per panicle (actually a thyrse because the branches are cymose)

Fruit Type: Capsule Fruit Colour: Brown, Green Fruiting Time: Sep, Oct Additional Info: Showy, only 1 to 5 develop per panicle; spiny and nut-like but splits along carpel lines to release a single (rarely 2 or 3) seed

Bark Morphology: Exfoliating Bark or Stem Colour: Brown, Grey     Leaf Bud Type: Ovoid Leaf Scar Shape: U-shaped

Propagation:	Grafting, Seed
Plant Care:
Maintenance:	Medium maintenance plant
Pest Susceptibility:	Stem borer insects, ( Pest resistant, Disease resistant )

Location(s): (BCW) Boulevard (Circular) Westend : 287, 288, 289, 290 (BGR) Boulevard by Glover Road : 291, 292 (NRY) NuRserY : 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 587 (QRR) Quercus Robur Row planting : 135, 136 Location Map

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