Yellow Buckeye
Habit | tree
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Height: | ⇕ | 90 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 90. |
Width: | ⇔ | 35 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. |
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Poisonous: | ☠ | seeds slightly toxic |
Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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Features: | ✓ | flowers |
USDA Zones: | 4 to 9 | |
Sunset Zones: | not available | |
Flower features: | ❀ | orange, yellow |
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Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus Octandra, syn. A. octandra) is a species of buckeye native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States.[1] It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–47 m tall. It grows in mesophytic forest or floodplains, generally in acid to circumneutral soil.
The leaves are palmately compound with five (rarely seven) leaflets, 10–25 cm long and broad. The flowers are produced in panicles in spring, yellow to yellow-green, each flower 2–3 cm long with the stamens shorter than the petals (unlike the related Ohio Buckeye, where the stamens are longer than the petals). The twigs have a faintly rank odor, but much less so than the Ohio buckeye, Aesculus glabra. The fruit is a smooth (spineless), round or oblong capsule 5–7 cm diameter, containing 1-3 nut-like seeds, 2.5-3.5 cm diameter, brown with a whitish basal scar. The fruit of the Yellow Buckeye is poisonous to humans but can be made edible through a leaching process.
Yellow Buckeye is an attractive ornamental tree suitable for parks and large gardens.
Read about Yellow Buckeye in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Aesculus flava, Marsh. (A. octandra, Ait. A. lutea, Wang. Pavia lutea, Poir.). SWEET BUCKEYE. Large tree, 4O- 90 ft.: lfts. 5, oblong-obovate or elliptical, cuneate, equally serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath : panicles 4-6 in. long; petals yellow, very unequal, their claws longer than the calyx; stamens 7, shorter than the petals: fr. smooth. May, June. Pa. to Ga. and Iowa.
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- More information about this species can be found on the genus page.
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References
- ↑ "Aesculus Octandra Range Map". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved on 2008-03-06.
External links
- w:Yellow Buckeye. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Yellow Buckeye QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)