| Scientific Name: | Aesculus flava |
| Common Name: | yellow buckeye |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree), Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Elliptic, Obovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmately compound, leaflets 5(-7), elliptic-obovate, most 10-20cm long x 3-7cm wide, margin sharply serrate, petioles can be long than the leaflet; thyrse erect, 10-15cm long, florets 2.5-4cm long x 5-9mm wide, tubular, 4 yellow petals; capsules smooth and rounded 4-6cm wide with (1-)2 seeds or "buckeyes" surrounded by a leathery light brown husk. Winter ID: large terminal flower buds (not sticky and lighter colour compared to horse chestnut). | |