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Scientific Name: | Aesculus hippocastanum |
Common Name: | common horse chestnut |
Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
Origin: | Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
Habit: | Open, Upright |
Form: | Round |
Texture: | Coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Spring interest |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Heavily veined, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Obovate, Double serrate |
Flowers: | Thyrse, White, Apr-May |
Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaf large, palmately compound with 5 obovate leaflets, cental one up to 30cm long; florets with 4 or 5 petals, white with pink markings, in 20cm long panicles; fruit large spiny capsule, splits to release large, glossy brown seed. Winter ID: buds opposite, ovoid, large (2cm), brown, and sticky; leaf scar large, with 7 distinct bundle scars. buds brown large, ovoid, and varnished with sticky gum |