Aesculus hippocastanum L., 1753

🇬🇧 Horse-chestnut

🇫🇷 Marronnier commun, Marronnier d'Inde

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Superrosids
Clade: Rosids
Clade: Malvids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Sapindaceae
Subfamily: Hippocastanoideae
Tribe: Hippocastaneae
Genus: Aesculus
Species: Aesculus hippocastanum

Presence

Introduced.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): NA Not Applicable
Red List (Global): VU Vulnerable

Photographs

img/aesculus-hippocastanum.webp — Aesculus hippocastanum

img/aesculus-hippocastanum-2.webp — Aesculus hippocastanum

img/aesculus-hippocastanum-3.webp — Aesculus hippocastanum

Sources

Allen, D.J., & Khela, S. (2017). Aesculus hippocastanum (errata version published in 2018). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2017. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/202914/122961065
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 1041). Biotope.