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Common name

English: Horse Chestnut

German: Rosskastanie

Mandarin: 欧洲七叶树 (ou zhou qi ye shu)

Portuguese: Castanheiro-da-Índia

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Sapindales (72)

        Family: Hippocastanaceae (3)(family description)

          Genus: Aesculus (3)

            Epithet: hippocastanum L. (1)

hippocastanum => horse chestnut

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: violet, pink, white

External links

Check for Aesculus hippocastanum at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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