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Red Horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea), is a hybrid between the larger Eurasian A. hippocastanum and the smaller American species A. pavia. This hybrid originated in Europe sometime in the early 1800s.

#horsechestnut #aesculus #springflowers

A large tree covered in bright pink, spiky blooms.

Spring flowers at VanDuse Garden.
#Actaea #Aesculus
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Actaea pachypoda fma pachypoda, baneberry. A corymb of tiny white flowers, each with small petals and much larger clusters of white stamens. Blurry green BG.

Aesculus ?flava, probably common buckeye.
A panicle of green-yellow flowers, each of which is a corolla tubule with petals opening at the distal end; the upper petals are marked with orange feathlike patterns. A small cluster of orange stamens emerges. Blurry BG, on the left a leaflet protrudes into the frame.

Aesculus cultivar, likely A. x flava. Buckeye.
A panicle of creamy white flowers, each of which is a corolla tubule with petals not quite opening at the distal end; the upper petals are marked with orange or magenta featherlike patterns. A small cluster of orange stamens emerges. Blurry BG of more flowers and leaves.

Aesculus x pavia, red buckeye.
A panicle of magenta-red flowers, each of which is a corolla tubule with petals flaring at the distal end; the upper petals are marked with orange featherlike patterns. A small cluster of red or brown stamens emerges. Blurry BG of leaves.

nach dem Regen im Park, after the rain in the park #kastanie #aesculus #gras #park

Horse Chestnut bud-break.

#bloomscrolling (ish) #Aesculus

Thumb-sized bud of a horse chestnut starting to break. The bud had sticky, waxy brown scales and the new leaves, which are flushed pink, are just starting to break from the tip

#BloomScrolling #Aesculus ?

Random question but does anyone know when to collect seeds from red buckeye, (Aesculus pavia)? There's a ton of seed pods / fruits growing on them, but I'm not sure at what point they'll start falling...or what they'll even look like on the inside lol, like is it one seed? a bunch? I've got no clue!

Edit: I found a youtube video! It's just one giant seed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-36NWFCTfW0

#gardening #aesculus #buckeye #plants #seedsaving

I am shaken to learn that four species of #Buckeye #Trees in eastern North America are not even close to monophyletic. This raises so many questions! The size range is absurd — the smallest “Painted” are 6’ / 2 m and the largest “Yellow” are 177’ / 54’ — so is the gigantism limited to one clade or did it evolve multiple times? How does this line up with geography? #Aesculus #Phylogeny

Reference:
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjb-2019-0018?download=true&journalCode=cjb

Color coded! Yellow for Yellow Buckeye, red for Red, and then blue for Painted and green for Ohio.

My own Buckeye specimen. Purportedly a “Yellow”…

Wind blew off some new growth on the yellow buckeye tree (Aesculus flava) in my front yard, and I thought I would share photos to show how large the leaves are. The tape measure is in inches (15 in = 38.1 cm).

#trees #buckeye #AesculusFlava #aesculus

A large, palmately compounded five-section leaf of a yellow buckeye tree (Aesculus flava) rests on a concrete walk with a tape measure in inches above it to show the width of the leaf is more than 15 inches/41 centimetres). The green leaf was blown off the tree due to high winds in spring weather.

Palmately compounded five-section leaves from new growth on a yellow buckeye tree (Aesculus flava) rest on a concrete walk. The leaves were blown off a tree in the spring due to high winds.

#Rosskastanie #Aesculus hippocastanum #Blütenknospen und eine Woche später erblühend. Weil die Blüten so puschelig sind, nehme ich an, es ist nicht die Wildform. #Baum #Baumblüte #Blüten #tree #blossom

@meganlynch What the HECK I had zero idea any #Aesculus species made #Buckeyes that size!

#aesculus

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