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Aesculus turbinata 'Marble Chip'
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Common name:
Marble Chip Japanese horse-chestnut
Family:
Hippocastanaceae (horse-chestnut family)
Distribution:
Species native to Japan
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 5
Life form:
Deciduous tree
Comments:
A large deciduous tree, up to 80' in the wild but about half this size in cultivation with upright and oval habit. Palmately compound leaves, 5-7 leaflets, dark green with white blotching. No appreciable fall color but resistant to leaf scorch. May flowers are 4-8" upright creamy white clusters. Fruit a large 2" nut. Nice shade tree or specimen plant.
Locations
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HOL: BM31
(BM31)
• Accession: D2010-0069.001 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
Area
Individual