Specimen View

Family: Sapindaceae	Genus: Aesculus	Species: Aesculus assamica Griff.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Aesculus punduana Wall, Aesculus indica (Cambess.) Hook. , Pavia indica Wall. exCambess.	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	East Himalayan Horse Chestnut, Kashmir Handun,	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Horse Chestnut, Bankhor or Ban Akhrot, Indian Horse Chestnut	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Indian Horse Chestnut	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	2400-5700 m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Capsule is yellowish brown, ovoid to obovoid, subglobose, or depressed globose, 4.5-5 × 3-7.5 cm, dotted but smooth; pericarp 1.5-2 mm thick after drying. The fruit usually contains one to three seeds.
Habitat	Tropical forests and subtropical area	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	China, Bangladesh , Bhutan , India ,Laos , Burma , Thailand and Vietnam .	Bark Details	The bark is light gray. The branches are gray, bald or hairy young.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Whorled (leaves in groups of 3 or more along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Plant up to 32 m tall. Branchlets hairless, or hairy when young. Leaves digitately compound, carried on stalks 8-30 cm long. Leaves 5-9 leaflets, with stalks 0.3-1.5 cm long; leaflets oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, rarely lanceolate to oblanceolate,. Inflorescence cyme, 27-45 cm long, 5-14 cm wide at base. Flowers fragrant. Calyx 4-8 mm, abaxially gray or pale yellowish gray puberulent or finely gray velutinous. Corolla 4, white or pale yellow, with purple or brown spots, unequal, 2 spatulate to oblong and 2 oblong-obovate or obovate, Capsule is yellowish brown, ovoid to obovoid, subglobose, or depressed globose, 4.5-5 × 3-7.5 cm, dotted but smooth; pericarp 1.5-2 mm thick after drying.	Leaf Details	Leaves are12-35 cm long, 5-18 cm broad.

Specimen's Details / Live Plants Details