Aesculus parviflora Walter

SUB FRUIT COLLECTION '117
The New York Botanical Garden
Cultivated Plants of U.S.A.
Hippocastanaceae Aesculus parviflora fma. serotina
New YORK State, Bronx Co., Bronx, New York Botanical
Garden.
40°52’01”N, 73°52’47”W. alt. 79 ft.
Cultivated ornamental near the front of
the Museum Building. Accession no.
571/41, from Hicks Nursery, Long
Island, plant record 5/28/41.
Shrubs to 5 m. tall; there are 9 stems in a
loose clump 5 m. in diameter, forming a
continuous umbrella-like canopy, the	I *
central stems erect, some on the perifery of
the clump are leaning; the largest stem 18 cm.
in diameter, and also with year-old sprouts from
the ground, the stems mostly decumbent at the base to 1 m. long;
bark smooth with lenticels. Fruit green with reddish tan hairs, 1-5
per inflorescence.
/ 53510a 15 Oct. 2005 Fruit from ground, opening irregularly from
I the top. Seeds 1 (rarely 2) per fruit, light chestnut-colored or pale
cream. \
This clump was removed in late winter, 2006, after the adjacent
Pinus strobus tree was taken down during a fierce wind storm.
Some year-old sprouts and later sprouts from spring of 2006 were
left to continue the colony.
Coll.: M. Nee 53510
26 Sept. 2005
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