Ohio Buckeye

(Aesculus glabra)

Hippocastanaceae

▲ ▼ Flowering trees on Missouri State University campus

▲ ▼ Mature trees on Missouri State University Campus

▲ ▼ flowers

▲ ▼ fruit with spiny bumps on leather husks

▲ ▼ leaves, with lower showing good fall color

▲ bark

▲ the tree had virtually no damage after 2007 ice storm in Springfield

Location on Missouri State University campus: north of Woods House dorm

Aesculus glabra: Ohio Buckeye

leaves opposite, deciduous, palmately compound with 5-7 leaflets-- similar to red buckeye; twigs, leaf size similar to red buckeye
grows 20-40' tall in rounded outline-- larger than red buckeye
differs in having greenish-yellow flowers
has large, rounded fruit with thick, tan leathery covering with short spines on covering, surrounding usually one large, smooth brown nutlet; seeds are toxic
native to Missouri