Fort McNair Horsechestnut

This large ornamental and edible-nut tree: a long-lived landscape specimen providing dense shade, fragrant catkin flowers in early summer, and edible chestnuts in autumn on a stately, broad-canopied framework.

• Upright oval, rounded, growth habit.
• Large buds are dark brown and quite sticky in early spring.
• Green compound leaves emerge in the spring, each with seven spreading oblong leaflets.
• Long dense panicles of single pink flowers with yellow throats.
• A smaller-growing aesculus compared to other cultivars.
• Commonly used for specimen.
• Grows best in full sun to partial shade.