| Scientific Name: | Aesculus x carnea 'Briotii' |
| Common Name: | ruby horse chestnut, red horse chestnut |
| Family Name: | Sapindaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Round |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Shade tree, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Heavily veined, Glabrous, Lustrous, Rugose, Digitate (palmate), Obovate, Double serrate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Thyrse, Pink, Dark-red, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, palmately compound, leaflets 5(-7) obovate, most central ones 15-20cm long x 8-10cm wide, rugose, margin double serrate; thryse 15-20cm long, florets many, red, 2-3cm long. Winter ID: buds large, red-brown, smooth (not as large or as sticky as horse chestnut). | |