Family: Hippocastanaceae
Scientific Name: Aesculus flava
Common Name: Yellow Buckeye, Sweet Buckeye, Big Buckeye
Description | A large ornamental tree. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
Hardiness Zone | 5 |
Sunlight | full sun |
Moisture | prefers moist, tolerates average |
Soil & Site | rich, well-drained, deep, and slightly acidic soils |
Flowers | inflorescence is an upright panicle, florets are yellow green |
Fruit | light brown, smooth, capsules splits open to yield two, 2" wide brown nuts with a prominent white "buck eye" |
Leaves | green, palmately compound, changing to yellow orange to yellow brown |
Dimensions | 75 feet tall by 45 feet wide, upright oval |
Propagation | seeds |
Misc Facts | Aesculus is a classical names for an Oak tree.
flava means yellow. (syn. Aesculus octandra) |
Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson) |
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