Taxon:
Aesculus hippocastanum L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:344. 1753
Verified:
05/17/1995
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
- Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980
- Campbell, F. T., ed. Report of National Coalition of Exotic Plant Pest Councils. 1995 (unpublished draft)
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 Note: poisonous
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Aesculus+hippocastanum&quantity=1
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Common names
English
horse-chestnut – French
marronnier – marronnier d'Inde – German
gewöhnliche Rosskastanie – Italian
ipposcastano – Spanish
castaño de Indias – Swedish
hästkastanj – Transcribed Chinese
ou zhou qi ye shu – Transliterated Russian
kaštan konskij –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Albania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Bulgaria | | e. |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Former Yugoslavia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Greece | | |
2 | Cultivated | Europe | | Europe | | |
2 | Cultivated | Northern America | | North America | | |
Native
Europe
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria (e.), Greece
Cultivated
Europe
Northern America
Economic Uses
Environmental
Materials
wood (source of timber fide F Eur) – Medicines
source of aescin (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) – Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Lampe & McCann; Pammel; Der Marderosian) – Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Rep NCEPPC) –