Yellow Buckeye

Basisdaten

description:

The yellow buckeye comes from North America, where it is an important forest plant.

Tree profile

name botanical:

Aesculus flava

other name:

Sweet Buckeye

family:

Soapberry family (Sapindaceae)

species:

deciduous tree

height:

up to 30 m (99 ft)

leaf:

The leaves of Yellow buckeye are palmately compound with five to seven leaflets. The leaflets are up to 20 cm (7.9 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:

yellow – yellow brown

flowering:

May

blossom color:

yellow

blossom description:

The inflorescences are upright piston-like (flower candle) The inflorescences up to 25 cm (5.9 in) high. The flower color is yellow.

gender distribution:

monoecious

fruit:

The seeds are surrounded by a green fleshy capsule. The seed is brown and glossy.

branches:

The branches are gray-brown. The large brown buds and lateral buds protrude from the twigs. The branches have large leaf scars.

bark:

The bark is gray, smooth until later strongly furrowed to scaly.

root:

Heart-rooting plant to deep-rooting plant. The root is densely branched.

location:

Sun to half-shade

soil:

deep, nutrient-rich, moist

ph value:

NULL

usage:

single tree in large gardens and parks

Buckeyes additional information

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

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