Aesculus × carnea
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Red horse-chestnut
| image = Aesculus carnea BotGartenMuenster PurpurKastanie 6685.jpg
| genus = Aesculus
| species = × carnea
| authority = Zeyh.
}}
Aesculus × carnea, or red horse-chestnut,{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }} is a medium-sized tree, an artificial hybrid between A. pavia (red buckeye) and A. hippocastanum (horse-chestnut). Its origin uncertain, probably appearing in Germany before 1820. It is a popular tree in large gardens and parks; and is even present in Hyde Park, London.Treeconomics Hyde Park Report [www.itreetools.org]
Aesculus × carnea's features are typically intermediate between the parent species, but it inherits the red flower color from A. pavia. Its showy flowers are borne in plumes on branch ends, blooming in spring and producing leathery fruit capsules in fall. It grows up to {{convert|40|ft|m|0}} tall and {{convert|30|ft|m|0}} wide, with a round head that casts dense shade when mature. Its leaves are dark green, palmately compound, and deciduous, each leaf divided into five large, toothed leaflets.{{cite book|title=The New Sunset Western Garden Book|year=2012|publisher=Sunset Publishing|edition=9th|page=136}}
Cultivars
- 'Briotii' (named in 1858 to honor Pierre Louis Briot (1804–1888), the chief horticulturist of the State gardens at Trianon-Versailles near Paris, France) This is the most commonly seen cultivar which has 10-inch tall, deep rosy flowers and matures as a smaller tree.{{cite web|title=Aesculus × carnea 'Briotii'|url=http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=70|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224072723/http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=70|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 24, 2012|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society|access-date=25 July 2013}}
- 'O'Neil', which produce larger (10–12 inch) panicles with brighter red flowers.
- 'Fort McNair' (named from where it was selected) it has dark pink flowers with yellow throats and resists leaf scorch and leaf blotch.
- 'Pendula' with arching branches.Govaerts, R., Michielsen, K. & Jablonski, E. (2011). Untraced Weeping Broadleaf cultivars: an overview. [http://www.dendrologie.be/bdb.php?p=402 Belgische Dendrologie Belge] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322194637/http://www.dendrologie.be/bdb.php?p=402 |date=2012-03-22 }} 2009: 19–30.{{failed verification|date=August 2024|reason=Dead link with a broken archive link (it fails to load properly)}}
- 'Plantierensis' which has intense rose pink flowers with yellow throats and does not set fruit, which makes it less messy.{{cite book|last=Roth|first=Susan A.|title=Taylor's guide to trees|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year=2001|location=Boston, MA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/taylorsguidetotr0000roth/page/408 408]|url=https://archive.org/details/taylorsguidetotr0000roth/page/408|isbn=978-0-618-06889-0|url-access=registration}}
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