What is Red Buckye?
Red Buckeye is a small tree or a large shrub that belongs to hippocastanaceae or horse chestnut, family. Other common names for Red Buckeye are Firecracker, Scarlet Buckey and Southern Buckey. Most kindergartens mention them as Aesculus Pavia Although some use its synonym aesculus splendes ; The buyers may therefore have to explore under different names. Like many Buckey trees, Red Buckeye is originally from the United States from the east coast of the west to the Missouri region, including parts of the central Texas.
People call it "Flip -flops", because bright red flowers resemble a lot of flip flops. In some plants, flowers can be pink red, red with yellow signs or yellow, for example in the variety Aesculus Pavia , Flavescens . In general, flowers rise above the stem in cone panic. The conical panic is a cone -shaped tip, which is a more branded stem of flowers. Usually bloomingru.
Each individual flower has a tube that ends in four or five petals, and a noticeable dark red chalice, which is sometimes longer than the flower tube. Calyx looks like a caps on a floral base and is in fact a vortex -like swirl similar to petals. Flowers and chalice are usually at the end of the petal 1 to 1.5 (approximately 2.5 to 3.5 cm) and 0.5 to 1.25 (about 1.5 to 3 cm). Often reddish sticks often spread slightly around the petals. Impressive panicles Red Buckeye can increase up to 6 to 8 inches (about 15 to 20 cm) high.
flowers usually ripen into a fruit or walnut that gives him the name "Buckeye". The real Buckeye grows in a thin skin. In these light brown pods, two or more shiny, red -brown Buckeyes usually grow. The seed or walnut looks like an edible chestnut, but they are poisonous to animals and people. Indians woreBuckeyes in their cases or pockets for happiness and as a discouraging means for rheumatism.
deep green leaves of red buckey have the shape of palmate. This means that it is a folded leaf that has leaflets that grow from the same place to the stem. Usually, Red Buckeye has five to seven leaflets in each Palmic group. Each leaflet is usually in the shape of a spear, up to 5 inches (about 13 cm) long; The entire palm leaf can be about 10 inches (25 cm) across. Leaves often appear earlier in spring than other trees, but have fallen earlier in the autumn.