Genus
Aesculus (Buckeyes and horse-chestnuts)
Aesculus californica. Photo: (c) Gary Griffith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
The genus Aesculus (/ˈɛskjʊləs/ or /ˈaɪskjʊləs/), with varieties called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. They are trees and shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with six species native to North America and seven to 13 species native to Eurasia. Also, several hybrids occur. Aesculus exhibits a classical arcto-Tertiary distribution.
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