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Identify Buckeye

Trees in the Buckeye Family

By Steve Nix, About.com Guide

Yellow Buckeye

Yellow Buckeye

Hippocastanaceae Watson/Dallwitz

Description of Buckeye

Leaves: Palmately compound , compound , long-stalked, mostly saw-toothed.

Bark: shallow fissures, surface separating into small scales.

Fruit: a large rounded brown capsule with hard thick wall splitting into three parts.

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