One of California’s showiest trees endemic to California is Aesculus californica, commonly known as the California buckeye or horse chestnut because the seed looks like a chestnut, although it ...

Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 113 (JANUARY 1965), pp. 1-15 (23 pages) Immature fruits of Aesculus yield powerful stimuli to growth and cell division. Therefore, the developing fruit of ...

Toxic horse chestnuts from Jeanette and Joseph’s California buckeye tree (Aesculus californica). (Courtesy of Patrice Hanlon) As to your question about toxicity, buckeyes are high in saponins ...

Phenological features of Aesculus indica Colebr. were studied in Kumaun Central Himalaya in relation to leaf sprouting, anthesis, pollen production, fruit setting, development and retention, and leaf ...

"Oh ! there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above." RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Officially, Ohio’s state tree may not exist. In 1953, the 100th General Assembly decreed that “the tree, Aesculus globra, commonly known as the ‘Buckeye’ is ...

To make your yard even more appealing, consider planting other hummingbird-friendly trees nearby, such as the Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) or the tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), both of ...

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