| Scientific Name: | Aesculus chinensis |
| Common Name: | Chinese horse chestnut |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Spring interest, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Lanceolate, Obovate, Double serrate |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves palmately compound with 5-7(-9) elliptic-obovate leaflets, most 13-20cm long x 5-8cm wide, bright green in spring, petiolules 0.5-3cm long; thryse 20-30cm long, floret 20-50, each ~2cm wide, petals 4, white with yellow spots, pistil about 2cm long (long style); capsules smooth, oval-round, about 3cm wide, nut- or drupe-like but splits along carpel lines to release 1(-2) red-brown seed. Winter ID: buds brown and sticky, opposite, small compared to other chestnuts; leaf scar large, with 7 distinct bundle scars grouped 2+3+2. | |