Aesculus × hybrida DC.
Hybrid chestnut
A hybrid: A. flava × A. pavia, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).
3 photographs › About the genus · Aesculus
The genus Aesculus is a genus of about 12 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs, mostly native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The European and Asian species are known as horse-chestnut or horse chestnut, and the North American species as buckeye.
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Photographs
Photographs: (c) Oleksandr Shynder, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).
Related
Other Aesculus 16 in the reference
Aesculus assamica Assam Buckeye Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado
Aesculus × bushii Bush's chestnut Photo: CC BY, Samuel A Schmid, PhD, PWS
Aesculus californica California buckeye Photo: CC0, author not stated
Aesculus chinensis Chinese horse-chestnut Photo: CC BY, Jiao Sun (孙娇)
Aesculus flava Yellow buckeye Photo: CC BY, Sandy Wolkenberg
Aesculus glabra Ohio buckeye Photo: CC0, author not stated
Aesculus hippocastanum Horse-chestnut Photo: CC0, author not stated
Aesculus indica Indian horse-chestnut Photo: CC BY, Karen Fry
Aesculus × mutabilis Chestnut Photo: CC BY, Russell P. Rai Aesculus × neglecta Sunrise horse-chestnut 
Aesculus parryi Lower california buckeye Photo: CC BY, Sula Vanderplank
Aesculus parviflora Bottlebrush buckeye Photo: CC BY, Michael Ellis all 17 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-211 in-range record, none placed to within 10 kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22inat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rulescommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.