This is another usually shrubby species from the S.E. United States, also in cultivation, 6 to 10 ft high, but occasionally a small tree up to 30 ft high. Young shoots downy at first only; leaflets five, up to 81⁄2 in. long, 21⁄2 to 31⁄2 in. wide, bright green and downy along the midrib above, rather glaucous and with axil-tufts of hairs beneath, leaf-stalk glabrous. Flowers each over 1 in. long, yellow; calyx bell-shaped, glandular on the margins; petals downy especially on the margins; stamens usually shorter than the petals. This species is closely akin to A. flava, the well-known ‘sweet buckeye’, which has also yellow flowers, but differs in its smaller, more downy leaves and leaf-stalks, and in the much larger fruits.
Aesculus glaucescens Sarg.
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Aesculus arguta Buckl.
- Aesculus californica (Spach) Nutt.
- Aesculus × carnea Hayne
- Aesculus chinensis Bunge
- Aesculus + dallimorei Sealy
- Aesculus flava Soland.
- Aesculus glabra Willd.
- Aesculus glabrescens
- Aesculus hippocastanum L.
- Aesculus indica (Camb.) Hook.
- Aesculus × mutabilis (Spach) Schelle
- Aesculus neglecta Lindl.
- Aesculus octandra
- Aesculus octandra
- Aesculus parviflora Walt.
- Aesculus pavia L.
- Aesculus × plantierensis André
- Aesculus splendens Sarg.
- Aesculus sylvatica
- Aesculus turbinata Blume