Aesculus turbinata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Sapindaceae |
Genus: | Aesculus |
Species: | A. turbinata
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Binomial name | |
Aesculus turbinata Blume
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Synonyms [1] [2] [3] | |
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Aesculus turbinata, common name Japanese horse-chestnut (Tochinoki or Tochi (トチノキ(栃の木) or トチ(栃、橡))), is native to Japan but cultivated elsewhere. It is a tree up to 30 m (98 ft) tall. Flowers are white to pale yellowish with red spots. Capsules are dark brown, obovoid to pyriform. [4] [1] The seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD. [5] Today the seeds are used in Japanese cuisine to prepare "Tochimochi".
Aesculus was named by Linnaeus, and the name is derived from the Roman name, aesculus, of the durmast oak. [6]
Turbinata means ‘conical’, ‘turbinate’, or ‘top-shaped’. [6]
Aesculus turbinata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Sapindaceae |
Genus: | Aesculus |
Species: | A. turbinata
|
Binomial name | |
Aesculus turbinata Blume
| |
Synonyms [1] [2] [3] | |
|
Aesculus turbinata, common name Japanese horse-chestnut (Tochinoki or Tochi (トチノキ(栃の木) or トチ(栃、橡))), is native to Japan but cultivated elsewhere. It is a tree up to 30 m (98 ft) tall. Flowers are white to pale yellowish with red spots. Capsules are dark brown, obovoid to pyriform. [4] [1] The seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD. [5] Today the seeds are used in Japanese cuisine to prepare "Tochimochi".
Aesculus was named by Linnaeus, and the name is derived from the Roman name, aesculus, of the durmast oak. [6]
Turbinata means ‘conical’, ‘turbinate’, or ‘top-shaped’. [6]