Yellow Buckeye -Aesculus flava

Hippocastanaceae - Buckeye Family
"A Year With the Trees" - Tree Number 48
Yellow Buckeye
Aesculus flava

Spring

This tree has bark that shines when the sun's light touches it.

Summer

The Yellow Buckeye has compound leaves with 5 leaflets joined at the center. This tree has toothed leaflets and the leaves and twigs grow opposite on the twig.

The Yellow Buckeye tree is in full flower at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville

Yellow Buckeye

Fall

The Yellow Buckeye Tree at the Asheville Botanical Gardens.
http://ashevillebotanicalgardens.org

Yellow Buckeye's nut-like seed

This Yellow Buckeye lives at  Clingman's dome in the Smoky Mountain National Park. 
You can see how the changes of the seasons are evident in the leaves.

Yellow Buckeye, Aesculus flava

There are quite a few Yellow Buckeyes  up at Purchase Knob in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.  These are the buckeyes that are soon to fall off the tree that live at Purchase Knob.

Yellow Buckeye in the Fall on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Winter

I will be out photographing and drawing the winter time Yellow buckeye tree soon.  


For the love of the trees,
Becky

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