Taxon: Aesculus hippocastanum L.

Common names:

• horse-chestnut   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• marronnier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Roßkastanie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• castaño de Indias   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support; ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Materials: wood   (source of timber fide F Eur)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of aescin   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann; Pammel; Der Marderosian)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC)
  

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View toxicology references for Aesculus hippocastanum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria [e.]; Former Yugoslavia; Greece

• widely cultivated

References:

• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio) [cultivated].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Aesculus hippocastanum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Aesculus hippocastanum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Aesculus hippocastanum f. memmingeri (K. Koch) Schelle
  

Check other databases for Aesculus hippocastanum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Aesculus hippocastanum cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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