Red buckeye

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: 15 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.
Width: 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 6 to 10
Flower features: red, pink
Scientific Names

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Aesculus >

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Plant Characteristics
Lifespan: perennial
Origin: E USA
Poisonous: seeds toxic
Cultivation
Exposure: full sun"full sun" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
Sunset Zones: 3-9, 14-24, 30-34
Scientific Names

Sapindaceae >

Aesculus >

pavia >



Read about Red buckeye in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Aesculus pavia, Linn. (Pavia rubra, Poir. P. Michauxii, Spach). RED BUCKEYE. Shrub or small tree, 4-20 ft.: lfts. oblong or elliptical, acute at both ends, finely serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath: panicles 4-7 in. long, loose; fls. purplish to dark red; calyx tubular; petals very dissimilar; stamens mostly 8, nearly as long as the petals: fr. smooth. May, June. Va. to Fla. and La.—Many garden forms, as var. humilis, Mouillef. (AE. humilis, Lodd. AE. Pavia var. nana, Dipp. AE. Pavia var. péndula, Hort. AE. rubra var. hùmilis, Loud.). Low shrub, sometimes prostrate, 2-4 ft.: lfts. coarsely and unequally serrate, slightly pubescent beneath, chiefly along the veins: fls. red; calyx dark red. Var. atrosanguinea, Rehd. Fls. very dark red. Var. sublaciniata, Wats. (Pavia atropurpurea, Spach). Lfts. narrower oblong, deeply serrate: fls. dark red. There are also forms with variegated lvs.


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