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Stace 4:

Aesculus indica (Cambess.) Hook. - Indian Horse-chestnut.

Tree to 29m; winter buds not sticky; leaflets 5-9, rather narrowly elliptic-obovate, stalked, 12-30cm, gradually acuminate; flowers white, to varying degrees tinged and marked with red, pink and yellow, in panicles as in A. hippocastanum; fruit 5-8cm, without protuberances; (2n=40). Neophyte-survivor; planted in parks and by roads, rarely self-sown; West Sussex and Middlesex, relic elsewhere in England, Channel Islands; Himalayas. Flowers 1 month later than other 2 species.

Key:

• Petals 4; stamens exceeding petals by about 2cm; leaflets with stalks about 1cm; fruits obovoid to pear-shaped