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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Hippocastanaceae (トチノキ科) > Aesculus hippocastanum
Aesculus L. (トチノキ)Seiyoutochinoki (セイヨウトチノキ, 西洋栃ノ木), horse chestnut or conker treeMaronie (マロニエ), marronnier (Fr) Lifeform: tall, deciduous tree (synoecious), occasionally becoming 40 m in height Distribution: Pindus Mountains and Balkan of southeastern Europe broadly transplanted in temperate regions, including Japan (rare in Hokkaido) |
Habitat: mixed foersts Fruit: globular, developing spines ↔ A. turbinata (Japanese horse-chestnut) Seed dispersal: cache Chromosomal number: 2n = 40 |
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[1-3] in Hibiya Park, Tokyo, on October 19 2018 (bark, 樹皮).