Aesculus chinensis

The Chinese horse chestnut is in the horse chestnut or Hippocastanaceae family and is native to northern China. It is a large deciduous tree growing up to 15 m tall.

• Leaves are opposite, palmately compound with 5 (sometimes 7) 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 long petiole.
• Flowers are erect, white, showy, in tall, erect clusters (panicles) up to 40 cm long.
• Fruit is a round, spineless, rough textured capsule whose husk opens in early fall to release 1 or 2 darkl-brown nuts, 2.5 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.
• Twigs are stout; terminal buds are large and sticky, 2–3 cm long; lateral bus are much smaller.