Aesculus flava (Yellow Buckeye)

Award-winning Aesculus flava (Yellow Buckeye) is a large deciduous tree of upright-oval to oval-rounded habit with immense secondary branches clothed in palmate compound leaves divided into 5-7 dark green leaflets. In mid to late spring, greenish yellow flowers are borne in erect panicles, 6 in. long (15), but are often almost lost among the leaves. The flowers give way to smooth, pear-shaped, brownish capsules that contain one or two buckeyes. The foliage turns brilliant yellow to pumpkin-orange in the fall. The gray-brown bark features large, flat, smooth plates and scales on mature trunks. This species is regarded as one of the most spectacular and trouble-free as Yellow Buckeye appears less prone to disease than A. x carnea, A. glabra, and A. hippocastanum. A stately landscape tree for parks and large lawns. It may be planted as a shade tree.

• Recipient of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society.
• Grows up to 50-70 ft. tall (15-21 m) and 30-50 ft. wide (9-15 m).
• Thrives in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun or part shade. Prefers moist, fertile, humusy-sandy loams.
• Keep an eye out for canker, coral spot, leaf spot and horse chestnut scale.
• Propagate by seed or grafting
• All parts are mildly poisonous by ingestion.
• Toxic to dogs, toxic to cats, toxic to horses.
• Native to North America.