Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Aesculus > Aesculus glabraAesculus glabra (Ohio buckeye; buckeye; Texas buckeye)Synonyms: Aesculus carnea; Aesculus carnea f. pendula; Aesculus carnea var. briotii; Aesculus carnea var. pendula; Aesculus carnea var. plantierensis; Aesculus echinata; Aesculus glabra f. glabra; Aesculus glabra f. pallida; Aesculus glabra var. leucodermis; Aesculus glabra var. micrantha; Aesculus glabra var. monticola; Aesculus glabra var. pallida; Aesculus glabra var. sargentii; Aesculus muricata; Aesculus ochroleuca; Aesculus ohioensis; Aesculus pallida; Aesculus plantierensis; Aesculus rosea; Aesculus rubella; Aesculus rubicunda var. rosea; Aesculus verrucosa; Aesculus watsoniana; Aesculus xcarnea; Hippocastanum carneum; Hippocastanum glabrum; Isypus ochraceus (homotypic); Nebropsis glabra (homotypic); Nebropsis muricata; Nebropsis ochroleuca; Nebropsis pallida; Nebropsis verrucosa; Ozotis trifoliata; Pavia carnea; Pavia glabra; Pavia ohioensis; Pavia pallida; Pavia rubra var. arguta (homotypic); Pavia watsoniana; Pavonia pallida; Pawia glabra; Pawia pallida The tree species Aesculus glabra is commonly known as Ohio buckeye, American buckeye, or fetid buckeye. Glabra is one of 13–19 species of Aesculus also called horse chestnuts. It is native primarily to the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the Nashville Basin. It is also found locally in the extreme southwest of Ontario, on Walpole Island in Lake St. Clair, and in isolated but large populations in the South (Adams County, Mississippi). It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 15 to 25 metres (49 to 82 ft) tall. |
| Air Quality Improvement [1] | Low | | Allergen Potential [1] | Medium-High | | Carbon Capture [1] | Medium | | Screening - Summer [2] | Dense | | Screening - Winter [2] | Porous | | Shade Percentage [1] | 88 % | | Temperature Reduction [1] | Medium-High | | Wind Reduction [1] | Medium |  | | Bloom Period [2] | Mid Spring | | Drought Tolerance [2] | Medium | | Edible [3] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Fire Tolerance [2] | Low | | Flower Type [3] | Hermaphrodite | | Frost Free Days [2] | 4 months 25 days | | Fruit/Seed Abundance [2] | Medium | | Fruit/Seed Begin [2] | Spring | | Fruit/Seed End [2] | Fall | | Growth Form [2] | Single Stem | | Growth Period [2] | Spring, Summer | | Growth Rate [2] | Rapid | | Hazards [3] | The seed is rich in saponins. Although poisonous, saponins are poorly absorbed by the human body and so most pass through without harm. Saponins are quite bitter and can be found in many common foods such as some beans. They can be removed by carefully leaching the seed or flour in running water. Thorough cooking, and perhaps changing the cooking water once, will also normally remove most of them. However, it is not advisable to eat large quantities of food that contain saponins. Saponins are much more toxic to some creatures, such as fish, and hunting tribes have traditionally put large quantities of them in streams, lakes etc in order to stupefy or kill the fish; | | Leaf Type [3] | Deciduous | | Lifespan [2] | Perennial | | Propagation [2] | Bare Root, Container, Seed | | Root Depth [2] | 36 inches (91 cm) | | Seed Spread Rate [2] | Slow | | Seed Vigor [2] | High | | Seeds Per [2] | 58 / lb (128 / kg) | | Shape/Orientation [2] | Erect | | Specific Gravity [4] | 0.36 | | Structure [3] | Tree | | Usage [3] | Saponins in the seed are used as a soap substitute; The saponins can be easily obtained by chopping the seed into small pieces and infusing them in hot water. This water can then be used for washing the body, clothes etc. Its main drawback is a lingering odour of horse chestnuts;
Wood - close-grained, light, soft, white, but often blemished by dark lines of decay; It weighs 28lb per cubic foot; It is easy to carve and resists splitting. Ideal to use in making artificial limbs, it is also used for woodenware, pulp etc and is occasionally sawn into lumber; | | Vegetative Spread Rate [2] | None | | | Flower Color [2] | Green | | Foliage Color [2] | Green | | Fruit Color [2] | Brown | | | Fall Conspicuous [2] | Yes | | Flower Conspicuous [2] | Yes | | Fruit Conspicuous [2] | Yes | | | Height [3] | 66 feet (20 m) | | Width [1] | 30 feet (9.2 m) | | | Hardiness Zone Minimum [1] | USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°) | | Hardiness Zone Maximum [1] | USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°) | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Shady | | Soil Acidity [2] | Moderate Acid | | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | | Water Use [1] | Moderate |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database. ♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture ♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 4Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service ♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 ♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 8Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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