Aesculus species

 

CLASSIFICATION Deciduous broadleaf

HABIT/SIZE Upright and oval; large tree 50 to 75 feet tall and 40 to 65 feet wide

LEAVES Palmately compound with five to seven long and pointed leaflets; opposite; three to six inches long; doubly-serrate margins; dark green

FLOWER Upright terminal flower clusters/panicles appear in late spring

FRUIT/SEED/CONE Shiny, dark brown seeds inside a bristly husk

BARK Becomes gray with maturity

 

A large dark green, rounded tree with white flowers throughout the canopy.    

Close up of light grey fissured bark.

Upright yellow white panicles surrounded by dark green leaves made up of five leaflets each.    

Large brown papery terminal buds on a bare limb.