Not to be confused with the Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. For the moth with this japanese chestnut, see Cerastis rubricosa. 19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae.
Mexican buckeye seedpods resemble the Aesculus seedpods, but belong to a different genus. Carl Linnaeus named the genus Aesculus after the Roman name for an edible acorn. Common names for these trees include “buckeye” and “horse chestnut”, though they are not in the same order as the true chestnuts, Castanea. Some are also called white chestnut or red chestnut.
Aesculus seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD. All parts of the buckeye or horse chestnut tree are moderately toxic, including the nut-like seeds. The toxin affects the gastrointestinal system, causing gastrointestinal disturbances. Native Americans used to crush the seeds and the resulting mash was thrown into still or sluggish waterbodies to stun or kill fish. Aesculus-assamica – leaves of young plant. Painted buckeye Aesculus sylvatica flowers leaves.
Aesculus wangii – Kunming Botanical Garden – DSC02928. The most familiar member of the genus worldwide is the common horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Among the smaller species is the bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus parviflora, a flowering shrub. Interpretations of the tree leaves can be seen in architectural details in the Reims Cathedral. The leaf of Aesculus was the official symbol of Kyiv on its coat of arms used from 1969 to 1995.
It remains an official symbol of Kyiv to this day. William Henry Harrison called himself the “log cabin and hard cider candidate”, portraying himself sitting in a log cabin made of buckeye logs and drinking hard cider, causing Ohio to become known as “the Buckeye State”. This designation has as a part of it a term, ‘Tertiary’, that is now discouraged as a formal geochronological unit by the International Commission on Stratigraphy. A revision of the American Hippocastanaceae I. A revision of the American Hippocastanaceae II. A revision of the American Hippocastanaceae V, Species of the Old World. New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston.
A field guide to edible wild plants of eastern and central North America. US Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Monroe, Louisiana: The Herbarium of Northeast Louisiana University. Phylogenetic inference in Sapindaceae sensu lato using plastid matK and rbcL DNA sequences”. A morphological phylogenetic analysis of Aesculus L.
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