Horse-chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 19 m
- wide
- 17 m
Sapindaceae
Also called European horse-chestnut, Horse chestnut, Conker tree, Common horsechestnut
Formerly Aesculus asplenifolia, Aesculus memmingeri, Aesculus procera, Aesculus septenata, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Balkan Pen. to TürkiyeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 m to 23 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 12 m to 21 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, redRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hebrew
- ערמונית הסוסים
- French
- Marronnier d'Inde
- Italian
- Ippocastano
- Spanish
- Castaño de Indias, Castaño de la India
- root
- AESHIP, Divlji kesten, Běły jěrowc
- German
- Gewöhnliche Rosskastanie, Gemeine Rosskastanie, Weiße Rosskastanie
- Portuguese
- Castanheiro-da-índia
- Croatian
- Obični divlji kesten
- Hungarian
- Közönséges vadgesztenye, fehér vadgesztenye
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis kaštonas
- Latvian
- Parastā zirgkastaņa
- Dutch
- Witte Paardenkastanje
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Aesculus hippocastanum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.