Come on then, genii, another ID please

[spandit]

[Yournamehere]

<hesitantly> Red horse chestnut <awaits QI claxon>

 

[Aesculus x Carnea, but had to look that bit up]

[spandit]

I thought it looked like horse chestnut, didn't realise there were different species. Thanks!

[daltontrees]

Aesculus x carnea was my first thought.

[Yournamehere]

Phew:001_smile:

Wasn't sure if it was something rarely seen and that is why you were asking and that I was about to fall into a well prepared trap.

Happy days.

[spandit]

Phew:001_smile:

Wasn't sure if it was something rarely seen and that is why you were asking and that I was about to fall into a well prepared trap.

Happy days.

 

No, I'm properly ignorant!

[Pinkfoot]

Think it is one called "Briotti". Buds are not very sticky .

[spandit]

Pretty, though. It's not on my property, though, so hopefully I can germinate some of the conkers

[Sylvia]

There's a beauty near me in a wood about to be sold for houses - the developer's tree surveyor says "Typical of the species the tree has a number of large areas of bud proliferation galls to its stem which overtime will die thus allowing the underlying cells to become invaded by wood rotting fungi"

Mind you wherever he looks he sees doom.

[The avantgardener]

Could also be Aesculus Indica, some of the pinks are Jaffas so you can't grow from seed.

[daltontrees]

I think Aesculus carnea is the hybrid between A. hippocastanum and A.pavia but A. indica is a species in its own right which most often has white flowers.

 

A. x carnea rarely ends up well. I would agree with the comments about is susceptibility to deformation, canker and decay. I recently put in a Conservation Area notice for one to be removed, the Tree Officer stated that there were so many things wrong with it that he couldn't begin to describe them. The contractor left the butt 0.5m high because he didn't know what to do with the mass of burrs, epicormics, twisted unions and dysfunctional mush at the base.

 

Not a great hybrid except, in my experience, wghen relatively young and vigorous. The main good point is that it flowers attractively while quite smalland young. Also seems up here to be relatively susceptible to Guignardia aesculi.