Details for: Ames 28163, Aesculus ×hybrida DC., Ames 28163


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus ×hybrida DC.
Top Name:
Ames 28163
Origin:
Collected – Ohio, United States
Received by NPGS:
15 Mar 2006
Form Received:
Plant
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus ×hybrida DC.
Top Name:
Ames 28163
Origin:
Collected – Ohio, United States
Received by NPGS:
15 Mar 2006
Form Received:
Plant
Source History
Collected
19 September 1984.
Ohio, United States
Locality: Lake Hope State Park just 4.5 miles northeast of Zaleski in Hope Iron Furnace area.
Coordinates: 39.3328, -82.3418 (Map it)
Elevation: 219m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/Lon determined via Map location
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Edge of woods.
Number of plants sampled: 2
Comment: Originally collected by Brian Parsons and Tom Yates as Aesculus flava.
Collector(s):
Donated
15 March 2006.
Ohio, United States

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Accession Names and Identifiers
Ames 28163
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers

Narrative
In the fall of 1984 Holden Arboretum staff collected seeds from native trees of yellow buckeye, Aesculus flava in a park in Vinton County in southern Ohio. Nine seedlings from this collection were planted at various locations in the arboretum. One of the plants, installed near Holden's Wildflower Garden, was more compact and branching in habit and bore darker green leaves than the rest. When this plant began to flower, we were surprised because, while each of the other seedlings bore the pale yellow blooms of Aesculus flava, the flowers of this specimen were reddish. Additional study has convinced us that this plant is a hybrid of A. flava with red buckeye, A. pavia, the name for which is Aesculus x hybrida. But how could this happen? Red buckeye is not native to Ohio. How did a grain of A. pavia pollen get to a flower of A. flava? A paper (DEPamphilis and Wyatt, 1989) that discusses a zone of natural Aesculus hybrids in the southeastern U.S. suggests that pollen can be transferred from the flowers of one species to another by migrating hummingbirds, even when the ranges of the species do not overlap. Reddish flowered individuals attributed to Aesculus flava have been found on several occasions, and a variety, virginica was published for these. In A Natural History of Trees (Peattie, 1948), D.C. Peattie states that this form was first discovered in West Virginia by George Washington, who planted several specimens at Mount Vernon. On a spring visit to Mount Vernon a few years ago, I observed trees 30 to 40 feet in height labelled Aesculus octandra (synonymous with flava) var. virginica, the flowers of which were very similar to those of the tree at Holden. The color of the flowers of the tree at Holden can vary, appearing reddish one year, and more orange another. Another asset of this plant is that its leaves are free of leaf blotch and scorch, remaining clean and dark green into the fall. Although in flower it is not as showy as Aesculus x carnea, its appearance the rest of the season is much more acceptable.
Aesculus ×hybrida DC.
Genus:
Aesculus
Section:
Pavia
Family:
Sapindaceae
Subfamily:
Hippocastanoideae
Nomen number:

1630
Place of publication:

Cat. pl. horti monsp. 75. 1813
Verified:
12/02/1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Aesculus octandra Marshall var. hybrida (DC.) Sarg.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Frenchmarronnier hybride  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1182.
GermanAllegheny-Rosskastanie  2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1182.
Swedishtvåfärgad hästkastanj  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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