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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: | Very 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, Rugose, Digitate (palmate), Obovate, Double serrate, Serrate |
Flowers: | Thyrse, Pink, Dark-red, May-Jun |
Fruit: | Capsule, Green, Brown, Jul |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves palmately compound, leaflets 5(-7) rugose, serrate, obovate, most central ones 15-20cm long x 8-10cm wide; panicles of red florets; capsules with stiff hairs, ovate, 2-4cm long, 2-3 sterile seeds. Winter ID: buds large, red-brown, smooth (not as large or as sticky as horse chestnut). |