| Other Names | Southern Buckeye | ||||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Aesculus pavia | ||||||||||||
| Family Name | Buckeye ( Hippocastanaceae ) | ||||||||||||
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A handsome shrub with showy, spikelike clusters of deep red, funnel-shaped flowers. The flower clusters are 6-10 inches long, and the individual flower is 1-1.5 inches long. The leaf is made up of 5 leaflets joined at a central point on a stem as long as the leaf. They are fine-toothed, glossy dark green above and whitish beneath. The seeds and the young shoots are considered poisonous. | |||||||||||||
March - May
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