Aesculus indica

The Chinese horse chestnut is in the horse chestnut or Hippocastanaceae family and is common along the Himalayan Lowlands, between Kashmir and Western Nepal. It is a large tree growing over 20 m tall.

• Leaves are opposite, palmately compound with 5–7 (9) leaflets, finely-toothed. Each leaflet is 8–25 cm long and 4–6 cm across, glabrous beneath, the whole leaf up to 50 cm across, with a petiole 10-15 cm long.
• Flowers are erect, white, showy, in tall, erect clusters (panicles) 15–30 cm long, flowering in May-June.
• Fruit is a round, spineless, rough textured capsule whose husk opens in early fall to release 1 or 2 dark brown nuts, 2.5–3.5 cm across, each one having a light tan scar. Nuts are poisonous.
• Leaf scars are crescent-shaped, with 7 vascular bundle scars in a half-circle.
• Bark peels off upwards in narrow strips; twigs are stout; terminal buds are large and sticky, 2–3 cm long; lateral bus are smaller.