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Aesculus sylvatica |
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Painted Buckeye |
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6 to 9 |
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Virginia to Georgia, west to Tennessee and Alabama -
United States |
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Shrub or small tree. |
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6 to 15 feet tall. |
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Color ranges from
yellow-green, yellow, pink to red. Borne in 4 to
8 inch long panicles in April and May. |
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Opposite, compound palmate, leaflets,each 4to6” long, 1
1/2 to 2 1/2” wide, ovate to obovate, tapering at apex
and base, finely and often doubly serrate, pubescent in
youth finally glabrous or hairy on margins below
petiole. |
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Leathery, 3 valved
smooth capsule about 1 to 2 inches thick
containing from 1 to 3 dark brown seeds. |
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