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{{SPlantbox
 
{{SPlantbox
 
|familia=Hippocastanaceae
 
|familia=Hippocastanaceae
|genus=Aesculus  
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|genus=Aesculus
|species=X carnea
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|species=x carnea
 
|common_name=Red horse chestnut
 
|common_name=Red horse chestnut
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|Max wd metric=ft
 
|Max wd metric=ft
 
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|poisonous=seeds slightly toxic
 
|lifespan=perennial
 
|lifespan=perennial
 
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|max_zone=9
 
|max_zone=9
|image=Upload.png
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|sunset_zones=1-10, 12, 14-17, 32-45
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|image=Aesculus carnea BotGartenMuenster PurpurKastanie 6685.jpg
 
|image_width=240
 
|image_width=240
 
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Describe the plant here...
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'''''Aesculus × carnea''''' is a hybrid between the [[Red Buckeye]] (''A. pavia'') and the Common [[Aesculus hippocastanum|Horse-chestnut]] (''A. hippocastanum''). The origin of the tree is not known, but it is probably a chance garden hybrid, appearing in [[Germany]] before 1820. The hybrid is a medium-size tree to 20-25 m tall, intermediate between the parent species in most respects, but inheriting the red flower color from ''A. pavia''. It is a popular tree in large gardens and parks, most commonly the selected cultivar 'Briotii' (named in 1858 to honor Pierre Louis Briot, the nurseryman at Trianon-Versailles near Paris, France), which has 10-inch tall, deep rosy flowers and matures as a smaller tree. Other cultivars are 'O'Neil',which produce larger (10-12 inch), brighter red flowers, '[[Fort McNair]]' (named from where it was selected), which has dark pink flowers with yellow throats and resists leaf scorch and leaf blotch, and 'Plantierensis', which has intense rose pink flowers with yellow throats and does not set fruit, which makes it less messy.<ref>{{cite book
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  | last = Roth
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  | first = Susan A.
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  | authorlink =
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  | coauthors =
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  | title = Taylor's guide to trees
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  | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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  | date = 2001
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  | location = Boston, MA
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  | pages = 408
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  | url = http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0618068899
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  | doi =
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  | id =
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  | isbn = 9780618068890}}</ref>
    
==Cultivation==
 
==Cultivation==