Details for: NA 88881, Aesculus assamica Griff., NA 88881


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus assamica Griff.
Top Name:
NA 88881
Origin:
Collected – Vietnam
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
Mar 2024
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seedling
Life Habit:
Tree
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Aesculus assamica Griff.
Top Name:
NA 88881
Origin:
Collected – Vietnam
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
Mar 2024
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seedling
Life Habit:
Tree
Source History
Collected
2010.
Vietnam
Habitat: Wild Habitat

Donated
March 2024.
Michigan, United States

PRE March 2024.
Washington, United States

Accession Names and Identifiers
NA 88881
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
Full name as recorded at the U.S. National Arboretum: Aesculus assamica. Received as Aesculus wangii. Material from Daniel Hinkley's Vietnam collection, presumably grown from seeds collected from a now-mature plant of direct wild origin in Hinkley's garden, Windcliff, being sold there under field collection number DJHV 10039. It is not clear from the information available whether any hybridization could have occurred at Windcliff. From Hinkley's locally available catalog listing (in 2025): "Exceptional in both rarity and ornament, this horse chesnut from northern Vietneam presents a lovely globe-shaped habit of growth to 35ft, clad with deciduous, finely textured palmate foliage and, in due time, erect racemes of white flowers pollinated by swallowtails, resulting in amazingly large conkers, the size of a childs head. Sun."
Aesculus assamica Griff.
Genus:
Aesculus
Section:
Calothyrsus
Family:
Sapindaceae
Subfamily:
Hippocastanoideae
Nomen number:

1621
Place of publication:

Not. pl. asiat. 4:540. 1854
Verified:
01/02/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Homotypic Synonym(s)
Aesculus punduana Wall. ex Hiern

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Aesculus wangii Hu

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