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An aesculus.
As you can see I'm working on adding more pics to my site.
Part of that is finding the right botanical names for various pics.
So here's a very interesting horse chestnut: it has the normal horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) leaf, and rather pretty horse chestnut flowers, but the seedballs are smooth. No spikes.
Weird.
Here's two pics:
Pic: Very pretty flowerspike with unripe (and still furry) seedballs.
Pic: Branch in flower.
What sort of horse chestnut is this? A cultivar, or a hybrid with something else? Many thanks!
Comments
looks like californica to me.
looks like californica to me.
Nope - the californica has a
Nope - the californica has a much denser flowerspike than this one.