Aesculus L.
(horse chestnuts)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Aesculus carnea
Red Horse-chestnut
(Click to open)
 		Species 10 images
Aesculus hippocastanum
Horse Chestnut, Horse-chestnut
(Click to open)
 		Species 24 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusAesculus (horse chestnuts)
FamilySAPINDACEAE (maples & horse chestnuts)
OrderSAPINDALES (rues, sumachs, smoke tree, pride of India and tree of heaven)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Aesculus (horse chestnuts) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Aesculus (horse chestnuts)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 157 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Aesculus (horse chestnuts)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)