California Buckeye

Basisdaten

description:

The California buckeye originally comes from California and the southwest of Oregon. The tree is often multi-stemmed.

Tree profile

name botanical:

Aesculus californica

family:

Soapberry family (Sapindaceae)

species:

deciduous tree

height:

up to 15 m (49 ft), often multi-stemmed

leaf:

The leaves of California buckeye are palmately compound with five (rarely seven) leaflets. The leaflets are 6 - 17 cm (2.4 - 6.3 in) long. The petiole is long. The leaf margin of the leaflets is toothed.

leaf shape:

palmately compound

leaf margin:

toothed

leaf position:

opposite

fall foliage:

brown colors

flowering:

May

blossom color:

white-pink

blossom description:

The inflorescences are upright piston-like (flower candle) The inflorescences up to 20 cm (7.9 in) high. The flower color is white to pink.

gender distribution:

monoecious

fruit:

The seeds are surrounded by a green fleshy and spiky capsule. The seeds are brown, glossy and up to 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter.

branches:

The twigs are light brown with lenticels.

bark:

The bark is smooth, finely fissured and light brown.

root:

Shallow-rooting plant

location:

Sun to half-shade

soil:

moist well-drained soils, intolerant of dryness

ph value:

slightly acidic to alkaline

usage:

single tree, in America forest tree

Buckeyes additional information

overview leaves | overview blossoms
overview fruit | overview trunk
overview winter | overview trees

Typical diseases for California Buckeye

Cancer at a tree

Leaf Tree Cancer (Nectria galligena)

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