Yellow Pavier

The yellow pavier or chestnut tree with yellow flowers ( Aesculus flava ) is a Arbre of the family of the Hippocastanaceae , or Sapindaceae according to phylogenetic classification. It is originating in the east of the the United States, cultivated like ornamental tree.

Description

It is a deciduous tree, of intermediate size being able to reach 20 to 35 meters in height. The bark is gray-pink, with great covered smooth zones of lenticels. The buds are smooth and resinous.

The Feuille S are opposite, made up-webbed, cash five (seldom three or seven) leaflets from 10 to 25 cm length, of acuminate elliptic form, at the finely toothed edges. The sheets of a green shining transfer with the autumn with the orange red shining.

The Fleur S are grouped in Panicule S from 10 to 15 cm length and flower in spring. They are yellow or yellow-green, sometimes pinks, with a 2,3 cm length tubular corolla. Cheesecloths are shorter than the petals.

The fruit is a capsule smooth, inerme, round or oblong, from 5 to 47 cm in diameter, containing 1 to 3 brown seeds from 2,5 to 3,5 cm in diameter, with a basal scar blanchâtre.

Distribution

The yellow pavier is a species originating in the East of the United States, since the Pennsylvania and the Illinois until the Alabama and the Georgia.

Use

The yellow pavier is a very decorative tree, cultivated like ornamental tree in the parks and the large gardens. One often grafts it on Aesculus hippocastaneum . It is not very widespread in Europe.

Form botanical

There exist two botanical form having a decorative interest:

Aesculus flava F. vestita whose young branches and the young sheets are more fluffy than the standard species
Aesculus flava F. virginica whose flowers go from the reddish pink to the white creams

Synonym

Aesculus will octandra Marshall

External bonds

'' Aesculus flava '' on '' Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ''

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