General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 30-40ft
Plant Spread: 25-35ft
Leaves: Deciduous
Other: Once established, it can be difficult to transplant because of its taproot. It features dark green palmate compound leaves with 5 (less frequently 7) spreading ovate-oblong leaflets (6-10” long). Leaflets have doubly-toothed margins. Fall color is somew
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Red
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Shade Tree
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Toxicity: Other: Nuts are poisonous.
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Red Horse-Chestnut

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Location: Scott County, Kentucky
Date: May 11, 2014
Colorful bloom on seedling grown Aesculus x carnea
Location: in an OKC garden
Date: 2003-04-20
Aesculus x carnea
Location: Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2013-05-29
Aesculus x carnea - Individual blossoms, to my eyes, have a kind
Location: Scott County, Kentucky
Date: May 7, 2006
Distinctive palmate compound leaves of Aesculus x carnea with puc
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-04-21
Red Horse Chestnut 001
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2022-05-23
Red horse-chestnut (Aesculus × carnea) bloom in late May.
Location: in an OKC garden
Aesculus x carnea
Location: Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2013-05-29
Aesculus x carnea - Medium-sized tree early in the blooming perio
Location: Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2013-05-29
Aesculus x carnea - A shot chosen primarily to show the palmately

Date: 2009-09-06
Location: in an OKC garden
Date: 2003-04-19
Aesculus x carnea
Location: in an OKC garden
Date: 2003-04-20
Aesculus x carnea
Location: in an OKC garden
Date: 2003-04-20
Aesculus x carnea
Location: In my garden
Date: 2011-05-07
Location: Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2016-04-08
Zone 9b.
Location: In my garden
Date: 2011-05-07
Location:  Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2016-04-08
Zone 9b.
Location: Madrid, Spain | April, 2023
Date: 2023-04-08
Location: Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid
Location: Botanical garden of Münster
credit: Rüdiger Wölk
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-04-21
Red Horse Chestnut 002

Date: May
credit: Rüdiger Wölk
Location: In my garden
Location: In my garden
Date: 2011-05-07
Location: Meise botanical garden
Date: 2022-05-17
Location: Madrid, Spain | April, 2023
Date: 2023-04-08

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