Aesculus × carnea 'Fort McNair'
Object Details
- Description
- This is a slightly smaller, rounder cultivar of the red horsechestnut that is considered to be more resistant to leaf blight. It has showy, 6-8" long panicles of red-pink flowers in the spring.
- Hardiness
- -30 - 10 F
- Attracts
- Birds w/ seed & nectar
- Bloom Time
- Early May
- Parentage
- Aesculus hippocastanum x Aesculus pavia
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- Cultivated
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
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- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- National Museum of Natural History
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2012-1455A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Common Name
- Flowering Horse Chestnut
- Red Horse Chestnut
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Rosanae
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Genus
- Aesculus
- Species
- × carnea
- Life Form
- Deciduous tree
- Bark Characteristics
- Rough, brown
- Fall Color
- Yellow
- Foliage Characteristics
- Light green in spring, dark green by summer; leaves are compound, palmate, and composed of 5-7 leaflets
- Fruit Characteristics
- Brown
- Structure
- Round to broad-rounded
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2012-1455A
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