Horse Chestnut Tree: Leaves, Flowers, Bark (Pictures ...
2023年7月14日 · When in bloom during mid-spring and early summer, the upward growing flowering horse chestnut terminal clusters look like candles on the tree. The distinctive showy flowers in a pyramidal shape make horse chestnuts easily identifiable.
Aesculus hippocastanum - Wikipedia
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, [1] [2] [3] is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. [4] It is also called horse-chestnut, [5] European horsechestnut, [6] buckeye, [7] and conker tree. [8]
Horse chestnut | The Morton Arboretum
Horse chestnut is a large tree known for showy flowers in May. The clusters of white flowers may be 6 inches tall or more. This non-native can be messy when its fruit drops and offers little in the way of fall color. The bark is gray, and as it ages, becomes platy with small sections falling away.
Aesculus hippocastanum 'Baumannii' - Plant Finder
Showy white flowers with red or yellow markings appear in upright terminal panicles in mid-spring (May in St. Louis). Fruit is a globular dehiscent capsule consisting of 1-2 horsechestnut(s) encased by a leathery light brown husk covered with sharp spines. Fruit on the tree is interesting but not particularly ornamental.
Horse Chestnut Tree: Leaves, Flowers, Bark (Pictures ...
2023年1月22日 · Horse Chestnut Flowers: Flowers on a horse chestnut tree are upright cone clusters of white blooms with a tinge of pink that bloom in the spring. Horse Chestnut Bark: When young, a horse chestnut tree’s bark is smooth and light gray, but with uneven fissuring as it ages. It becomes rough and scaly. Horse Chestnut Fruit: A green leathery husk ...
Horse Chestnut Trees - Midwest Gardening
2017年12月8日 · Turns yellow or brown in Fall. The Common Horse Chestnut leafs out early in spring with light green leaves. The blooms in early spring are spectacular, peaking by mid May. After the leaves have fallen, a very attractive branching form is exposed, with spreading branches turned up at the ends.
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Growing & Care …
2024年1月31日 · Aesculus hippocastanum is also known as the Horse chestnut tree. It is a stately flowering tree that produces delicate white flowers in the spring and spiny green seedpods in the summer. Aesculus hippocastanum tree in bloom, photograph by Svetlana Lisova; CC.