What is Horse chestnut?
:''The other kind of chestnut is called [[sweet chestnut]]. It is not related to this tree'' {{Taxobox | name = ''Aesculus hippocastanum'' | image = Horse-chestnut 800.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = Horse-chestnut planted as a feature tree in a park | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Sapindales]] | familia = [[Sapindaceae]] | genus = ''[[Aesculus]]'' | species = ''A. hippocastanum | binomial = '''''Aesculus hippocastanum''''' | binomial_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] }} A '''horse chestnut''' (''Aesculus hippocastanum''), also known as the '''horse-chestnut''', '''buckeye''', '''conker tree''', or '''Spanish chestnut''', is a large [[deciduous]] [[tree]]. It is native to southern [[Europe]], in the [[Balkans]]. It is often grown in [[Temperate climate|temperate climates]]. It can grow up to 36 [[Metre|metres]] tall. The name of the tree (and the whole [[genus]] of similar trees) is because its fruit, the conker, was used to treat [[horse]]s against [[cough]] and some [[parasite]] [[worm]]s. Humans cannot eat horse chestnuts. The trees are not closely related to [[sweet chestnut]]s. <gallery class=center> Baden-Baden-Aesculus hippocastanum-74-Rosskastanie-Blatt-Bluete-2012-gje.jpg Baden-Baden-Aesculus hippocastanum-84-Rosskastanie-Bluete-2012-gje.jpg Baden-Baden-Aesculus x carnea-20-Rotbluehende Rosskastanie-Bluete-2012-gje.jpg Baden-Baden-Aesculus hippocastanum-96-Rosskastanie-Frucht-2012-gje.jpg </gallery> {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Trees]] [[Category:Sapindaceae]]