Japanese Horse Chestnut

Le marronnier japonais est un arbre à croissance rapide atteignant 30 m dans des conditions idéales

Japanese horse chestnut is a fast growing tree up to 30 m under ideal conditions. Introduced to China and North America, now widely planted as an ornamental and for timber .The large leaves turn bright orange in autumn. Winter buds are red, glossy, and sticky. Leaves are compound and palmate, with 5 to 7 obovate, stalkless, toothed leaflets all attached at the same point at a central leaf stalk. Flowers are creamy-white with a red blotch, and are borne on an upright thyrse up to a foot tall in late spring. The fruit is a nearly spineless, egg-shaped yellow-green husk with usually 1 brown seed inside . A truly spectacular specimen tree, suitable for formal gardens or wide lawns, Japanese horse-chestnut is tolerant of a wide range of soils.