Plant Identification

  • Hippocastanaceae
  • Angiosperms
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  • Aesculus
    . Leaves are deciduous, opposite, and palmately compound with serrate leaflets. Flowers are conspicuous and borne in upright, several-flowered panicles. Fruit is a large, leathery capsule, more or less spiny, containing 1 to 6 seeds.

  • Horsechestnut (A.hippocastanum)
  • Yellow Buckeye (A.flava)
  • Ohio Buckeye (A. glabra)