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Red Horsechestnut
Latin Name:
Aesculus x carnea
location:
a hybrid between A pavia
The Red Horsechestnut, also called in Latin Aesculus x carnea, i usually found close to a hybrid between
A. pavia. It usually looks like medium shade tree; deciduous, making it a plant very different from others. In the summer, a special form of foliage appears, more or less opposite, palmately-compound leaves, usually with 5 leaflets and in the automn it is more or less similar to
A. hippocastanum
; brown. The Red Horsechestnut (Aesculus x carnea) has beautiful flowers that are blooms in late spring and grows fruits that are capsule, 1-1.5" long, round. It has a special bark, where we can find similar to
A. hippocastanum
; dark gray-brown, platy on old wood on it. An interesting fact about the way it is cultured would be that similar to other
Aesculus
However, a bad thing with the Red Horsechestnut can be that leaf, twig and fruit litter can be a problem We can easily recognize a Aesculus x carnea with its large, palmately compound leaves, smaller and darker green than
A. hippocastanum
. The Red Horsechestnut's propagation is very interesting since it is mainly done some reports indicate that
A.
x
carnea
breeds true, some that it is nearly sterile
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