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Topic: Yellow Buckeye


  
  WildWNC.org : Trees : Yellow Buckeye
Yellow buckeye is abundant in the mesophytic forests almost to the boundary of Wisconsin glaciation (4).
Yellow buckeye is a common associate in the Sugar Maple (Society of American Foresters Type 27) forest cover type of the central hardwood zone and the Appalachian highlands (5).
Yellow buckeye becomes established, survives, and grows in competition with its associates of the mixed mesophytic forest; thus, it must be classed as a shade-tolerant tree.
wildwnc.org /trees/Aesculus_octandra.html   (1928 words)

  
 Ohio Trees - Yellow Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yellow Buckeye is the tallest and healthiest of the Buckeyes and closely related Horsechestnuts, found in Ohio almost exclusively in the southeastern portion of the state, and also in the extreme southern counties along the Ohio River.
Yellow Buckeye tolerates shady conditions in its youth, but grows in full sun to partial sun at maturity, and is found in zones 4 to 8.
Yellow Buckeye has opposite, palmately compound leaves that are less prone to the scorching and foliar diseases that are found in Ohio Buckeye and Horsechestnut.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/trees/buckeye_yl.htm   (521 words)

  
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Yellow buckeye is less susceptible to leaf scorch than other buckeyes.
Yellow buckeye wood is soft, weak and doesn't resist decay.
The bark of yellow buckeye is interesting with smooth plates on young trunks leading to flaking strips on older specimens.
www.uky.edu /Ag/Horticulture/kytreewebsite/treeprofiles/text/aflavainfo.htm   (568 words)

  
 Buckeye and Horsechestnut Nursery Trees
Yellow Buckeye seeds are sweeter than the other buckeyes, but not quite palatable for humans, wildlife and domestic animals do relish them.
The wood of the Yellow is uniform in texture, lightweight, and structurally weak.
Although this and Ohio Buckeye are the two commercially used buckeyes, the Yellow is used more for crates and boxes in the food industry since the white wood is odorless and tasteless, and light in weight.
www.cdr3.com /buckeyes   (1246 words)

  
 Plant Information Center - NC Trees - Yellow Buckeye
Yellow buckeye leaves are opposite, palmately compound with five (sometimes seven) broad-oval, pointed leaflets 4 to 6 inches long.
It is the largest of the native buckeyes and is one of the first trees to leaf in spring.
The bark is grayish brown, scaly and divided by shallow fissures.
www.ibiblio.org /pic/NCTrees/yellowbuckeye.htm   (190 words)

  
 Trees for Nebraska- Buckeye & Horsechestnut
Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra, is a medium-sized tree reaching 20-40 feet at maturity, with a rounded canopy.
Yellow Buckeye, Aesculus flava, is a large tree that may reach 60 feet tall at maturity.
The 6-7 inch long panicles of yellow flowers are produced in spring and are followed by smooth, pear-shaped, 2-3 inch long seed capsules later in summer.
hortparadise.unl.edu /newsrelease/News/Buckeye.htm   (439 words)

  
 The National Arbor Day Foundation
Buckeyes are distinctive trees, known for their early spring flowers and for the seeds that have inspired the name of this unique family of trees.
Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) is an attractive tree often recognized by its rounded canopy and thick, deeply fissured, gray bark.
Ohio buckeye is seldom used as a street tree because of the odor it produces when damaged, giving it the popular name of Fetid Buckeye, and because of litter from its dropping fruit and leaves.
www.arborday.org /programs/NationalTree/buckeye.cfm   (462 words)

  
 Ohio Trees, Bulletin 700-00, Aesculus – Buckeye, Horsechestnut
Buckeyes and horsechestnuts are deciduous trees with large winter buds having several pairs of outer scales.
The yellow buckeye is also called sweet buckeye and is the largest member of this interesting tree group.
The capsule of its fruit contrasts with that of the Ohio buckeye and horsechestnut that is warty or spiny.
ohioline.osu.edu /b700/b700_56.html   (959 words)

  
 Tree Details—The Tree Guide at arborday.org
The husk, or shell, is smooth, as opposed to the thornier shell of the Ohio Buckeye.
The Yellow buckeye is a common part of the rich mix of species found from the mountains of West Virginia south into northern Georgia.
Yellow buckeyes grow in mature hardwood forests, and provide shelter and nesting sites for the animals dwelling in those forests.
www.arborday.org /Trees/treeguide/TreeDetail.cfm?ID=21   (480 words)

  
 Ohio Trees - Ohio Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ohio Buckeye, the state tree of Ohio, is found primarily as an understory tree in the western half of Ohio, where the soils are more alkaline in pH.
As a result, Ohio Buckeye and Horsechestnut have a brown, fall-like appearance to their foliaged canopy by mid-summer, and may be nearly defoliated by late summer.
The dormant buds of Ohio Buckeye resemble those of Yellow Buckeye, but upon close inspection they have overlapping scales that flare slightly at their edges, a very subtle trait that is hard to determine in many cases.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /forestry/trees/buckeye_oh.htm   (672 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Characteristics: Yellow Buckeye attains a height of 90 feet and may have a trunk up to 3 feet in diameter.
The leaves are between 5 to 15 inches long and occur in groups of five.
The yellow flowers are present in clusters 4 to 7 inches long.
www.gypsymoth.ento.vt.edu /vagm/Treeimages/buckeye.html   (57 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye
The Yellow Buckeye tree, Aesculus octandra, is an ornamental tree and may also be known as the big buckeye, buckeye, large buckeye, Ohio buckeye, and sweet buckeye.
The smallish creamy yellow or occasionally pinkish flowers appear in 6" panicles from late spring to early summer, followed by fruits each with 2 to 4 seeds.The dark green leaves turn yellow before falling.
Yellow Buckeye trees have nuts that are attractive to squirrels.
www.gardensimply.com /nursery/product.php?prod_id=453144765   (89 words)

  
 Floridata: Aesculus flava
The yellow buckeye is a large deciduous forest tree capable of attaining heights of 60-90 ft (18.3-27.4 m) with 2-3 ft (0.6-0.9 m) diameters.
The seeds of the buckeye are traditionally carried around by people living in the Appalachian Mountains as a good luck charm and were once thought to protect against rheumatism.
The yellow buckeye is easy to grow, requires litte maintenance and is seldom bothered by pests or disease.
www.floridata.com /ref/a/aesculus.cfm   (309 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye
Distribution: In the United States, buckeye ranges from the Appalachians of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina westward to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
The Tree: Buckeye is a tree 30 to 70 ft (9 to 21 m) high and 2 ft (0.6 m) in diameter.
The wood is uniform in texture, generally straight-grained, light in weight, weak when used as a beam, soft, and low in shock resistance.
www.windsorplywood.com /nam_hardwoods/yellow_buckeye.html   (440 words)

  
 The Morning Journal - City of Buckeye no mirage
Buckeye, Arizona isn't quite the same as Ohio's Buckeye Nation, but the residents are trying.
The school's nickname is the Hawks, the colors are blue and yellow and the logo is the University of Iowa's Hawkeye.
Buckeye fever is slow to catch on in Buckeye, Arizona.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10734699&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46370&rfi=6   (660 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This buckeye may be preferable to the Ohio Buckeye for landscape use.
It is a native of Northern East Coast having an upright oval spreading crown reaching 75 feet.
This tree doesn't have the foliar problems that the Ohio Buckeye has.
pas.byu.edu /tree_tour/yellow.htm   (52 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most common species found in the Appalachian region is the Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus octandra).
Distinguishing between the Ohio Buckeye and Yellow Buckeye can be done very easily by comparing their fruit.
The Yellow Buckeye's fruit (Pictured here) is smooth, and the Ohio Buckeye's fruit is spiny and prickly.
webpages.charter.net /svmiller/buckeye.html   (112 words)

  
 Aesculus glabra fact sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Oval to obovate leaflets are 3 to 6 inches long with a serrated margin, rachis about as long as leaflets.
Flower: Light yellow, in large, 4 to 7 inch, showy, upright clusters.
Fruit: Prickly, leathery husk enclosing usually 1 smooth chestnut brown seed (1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter).
www.cnr.vt.edu /dendro/dendrology/syllabus/aglabra.htm   (108 words)

  
 Yellow Buckeye   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
as buckeye, flourishes in the rich mountain coves of the southern Appalachians, where it attains a height of 90 feet and a diameter of 4 feet.
except the other member of the buckeye group, are divided into usually 5, but sometimes 6 or 7 oblong, pointed, sharply-toothed leaflets 4 to 6 inches long, all set on the end of the leaf stems, which are about as long as the leaflet.
The leaves usually fall very early in the autumn on account of the attacks of a disease which causes large brown spots.
www.dof.virginia.gov /trees/buckeye-yellow.shtml   (242 words)

  
 Aesculus (buckeye)
With opposite palmately compound leaves, this large tree is common in moist cove forests in the NC mountains and occurs rarely in a few piedmont locations.
Upright inflorescences develop in late spring, and the buckeye nuts develop in the fall.
New Hanover Co., NC Found mostly in the coastal plain in NC in moist woodlands and swamp edges, Red Buckeye is an uncommon shrub to small tree.
www.duke.edu /~jspippen/plants/aesculus.htm   (145 words)

  
 Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
Look for this buckeye in the fall when its yellow-orange fall color can be seen from throughout the Arboretum.
Wonderful flaky bark, yellow flower clusters, and fantastic fall color make this species a useful native alternative to the disease-prone horsechestnut.
Our tree has fully recovered from being badly damaged in the 1991 tornado.
www.business-services.upenn.edu /arboretum/yellowbuckeye2.html   (79 words)

  
 Aesculus flava
flava translates as "yellow", referring to the floral color.
Yellow Buckeye is the best of the shade tree Buckeyes and Horsechestnuts, with respect to its relatively clean foliage by Summer's end.
Aesculus flava is known for its tall stately growth habit, prominent yellow inflorescences in Spring, clean Summer foliage, and fruits in Autumn.
www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /hcs/TMI/Plantlist/ae_flava.html   (467 words)

  
 Trees: Aesculus octandra; Aesculus flava
Opposite, compound, palmate leaf with 5 leaflets; dark green disease resistant foliage; yellow-orange fall foliage
Erect, 6" panicle of creamy yellow flowers in late spring; smooth fruit capsule with 2 seeds
Nuts attract squirrels; less susceptible to leaf scorch than other buckeyes
www.ces.ncsu.edu /depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/aesculus_octandra.html   (61 words)

  
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 Tree Selector - Tree Detail - Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus flava or Aesculus octandra)
Tree Selector - Tree Detail - Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus flava or Aesculus octandra)
Erect clusters of yellow flowers in spring; fall color is orange
Full sun to light shade; prefers consistently moist, but well drained soils; slightly acid soil is best
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu /treeselector/index_tree.cfm?id=11   (71 words)

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