The horse chestnut and horse chestnut tree is widely used as an ornamental plant in the roads or as isolation. Creates a very large and dense shadow. The Horse Chestnut can reach 25 to 30 meters in height; presents an elegant and imposing bearing tree. The foliage is expanded, reaching 80-10 meters in diameter also remaining very compact. The look is rounded or pyramid, because of their lower branches horizontally. The branches are lenticels, have large buds opposite, reddish, and a large terminal, coated with a sticky substance. The bark is smooth and brown and flaky with age. Dell'ippocastano The leaves are deciduous, palmate-seven, with insertion opposite, with a stem of 10-15 cm, on twigs or greenish brown, slightly pubescent. Each leaf, which can reach over 20 cm in length, consists of 5-7 laminae obovate with acuminate apex and narrow base. The margin is doubly serrate, rib is well marked. The stalk has no stipules, but a wide base and a crack that runs through it. The leaves are bright green on the upper side and light green with a slight tomentosità on the ribs, and below. The plant has hermaphrodite flowers with bilateral symmetry, consisting of a small cup to 5 lobes and a corolla with 5 petals white, often stained yellow or pink in the center. The flowers are grouped in panicle inflorescence large (up to 20 cm in size and 50 flowers). Flowering takes place during the months of April-May. The fruits are large and round greenish capsule, equipped with short spines, which start in three valves and containing a large seed or even more shiny brown seeds that take the name of Chestnut crazy. They taste bitter and develop a very unpleasant smell during cooking. Long-lived and rustic, tolerates low temperatures and has no particular requirements in terms of soil, even if it grows best in fertile soil. It is not very resistant to soil salinity and air pollutants, which reacts with reddening of leaf margins and premature leaf desiccation.
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