Aesculus

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Noun1.Aesculus - deciduous trees or some shrubs of North AmericaAesculus - deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia
genus Aesculus
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Hippocastanaceae, Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family - trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut, buckeye - tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
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Please do not confuse these true chestnuts with the inedible, and even poisonous, horse chestnut of the Aesculus species.
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Aesculus species have different medicinal or cosmetic uses, and the bark of the horse chestnut contains low amounts of gallic and tannic acids which are used in industrial applications.
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