Aesculus californica, commonly known as the California buckeye or California horse-chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family native primarily to California and southwestern Oregon. It is a large shrub or small tree, often with several trunks and a broad, rounded crown. It has palmately compound leaves are among the earliest in spring, followed by erect flower clusters of white to pale pink flowers in late spring and large, pear shapes fruit capsules in late summer.
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Is it poisonous?
Toxic. The note covers its whole genus. Horse chestnut; aesculin in seeds and leaves Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Genus
- Aesculus
- Species
- Aesculus californica
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