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Horse-Chestnut
(Aesculus hippocastanum)
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Aesculus hippocastanum is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree, commonly known as horse-chestnut or conker tree.
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Buckeyes and Horse-Chestnuts
(Genus Aesculus)
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The genus Aesculus (/ˈɛskjʊləs/ or /ˈaɪskjʊləs/), with varieties called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species native to North America and seven to 13 species native to Eurasia. Also, several hybrids occur. Aesculus exhibits a classical arcto-Tertiary distribution.
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Red Horse-Chestnut
(Aesculus × carnea)
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Aesculus × carnea, or red horse-chestnut, is an artificial hybrid between A. pavia (red buckeye) and A. hippocastanum (horse-chestnut). The origin of the tree is not known, but it probably first appeared in Germany before 1820. The hybrid is a medium-size tree to 20–25 m tall, intermediate between the parent species in most respects, but inheriting the red flower color from A. pavia. It is a popular tree in large gardens and parks.
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Horse-chestnut Leafminer
(Cameraria ohridella)
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The horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella) is a leaf-mining moth of the Gracillariidae family. The horse-chestnut leaf miner was first observed in Macedonia in 1984, and was described as a new species in 1986. Its larvae are leaf miners on the common horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum). The horse-chestnut leafminer was first collected and inadvertently pressed in herbarium sheets by the botanist Theodor von Heldreich in central Greece in 1879.
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Brackishwater Mangrove
(Barringtonia racemosa)
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Barringtonia racemosa (powder-puff tree, Afrikaans: pooeierkwasboom, Zulu: Iboqo, Malay: Putat) is a tree in the family Lecythidaceae. It is found in coastal swamp forests and on the edges of estuaries in the Indian Ocean, starting at the east coast of Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, southern China, northern Australia, coastal Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and many Polynesian islands.
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Horse Chestnut Moth
(Pachycnemia hippocastanaria)
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Pachycnemia hippocastanaria, the horse chestnut moth, is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of Europe.
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Indian Putat
(Barringtonia acutangula)
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Barringtonia acutangula is a species of Barringtonia native to coastal wetlands in southern Asia and northern Australasia, from Afghanistan east to the Philippines and Queensland. Common names include freshwater mangrove, itchytree and mango-pine.
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Indian Horse-Chestnut
(Aesculus indica)
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Aesculus indica, the Indian horse-chestnut or Himalayan horse chestnut, is a plant species in the Sapindaceae family.
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Japanese Horse-Chestnut
(Aesculus turbinata)
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Aesculus turbinata, common name "Japanese horse-chestnut" (Tochinoki or Tochi (トチノキ（栃の木） or トチ（栃、橡）)), is native to Japan but cultivated elsewhere. It is a tree up to 30 m tall. Flowers are white to pale yellowish with red spots. Capsules are dark brown, obovoid to pyriform. The seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD.
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Horse-Chestnut Powdery Mildew
(Erysiphe flexuosa)
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Horse-chestnut Scale
(Pulvinaria regalis)
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Pulvinaria regalis is a species of scale insect in the family Coccidae. Although it is commonly known as the horse chestnut scale, it affects other trees besides horse chestnuts as well as many species of woody shrubs. Adults are normally all female and produce eggs by parthenogenesis. The insects are thought to have originated in Asia but arrived in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Wilson's Horse-Chestnut
(Aesculus chinensis var. wilsonii)
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Bleeding Canker of Horse-Chestnut
(Pseudomonas syringae ssp. aesculi)
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