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‘Aesculus Hippocastanum’
Dr. Prakash Joshi
Medisynth's Know Your Herb

Botanical Name : Aesculus hippocastanum L.

Family : Hippocastanaceae

Common name : Hindi : Pu; English : Horse chestnut; French : Marronier d’Inde; German : Gemeine Kastaive.

Habitat : Native of middle Asia, cultivated as an ornamental tree in Europe and America; grown in northern India.

General Description : Deciduous tree, upto 25m.high. Bark grayish, warty; twigs thick, with large, conspicuous leaf scars and resinous winter buds. Leaves palmately compound; leaflets 5-7, 10-25cm long, obovate, toothed, apiculate, with parallel secondary venation from midrib. Inflorescences paniculate. to 30 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers white; calyx fused, 5-lobed; corolla bilaterally symmetrical, 10mm long, of (4-)5 clawed petals; claws and veins of petals yellow, turning dark red at flowering; stamens 8-10, protruding from corolla; ovary compound. Fruit a capsule, green, leathery, spiny, with 1 (-3) seeds 2-4 cm in diameter, shiny, dark brown.

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