One of California’s showiest trees endemic to California is Aesculus californica, commonly known as the California buckeye or horse chestnut because the seed looks like a chestnut, although it ...

To make your yard even more appealing, consider planting other hummingbird-friendly trees nearby, such as the Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) or the tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), both of ...

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Aesculus californica are endemic to California and southern Oregon, meaning that they are not found growing naturally anywhere else. Paleobotanists (scientists who study the evolutionary history ...

Aesculus californica is endemic to California. During winter months, the silvery-white bark glistens against a backdrop of verdant hills and valleys.

"Oh ! there the chestnuts, summer through, Beside the river make for you A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep Deeply above." RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain ...