The " National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees " list six species of the Buckeye kin as native to North America . One , the Ohio buckeye , is the State Department Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree of Ohio , while the others grow in different parts of the nation . The buckeyes feature foliage shape like an outstretched handwriting , clusters of blossom in the give and a nut that gave the tree its name because people thought it looked like the eye of a deer .
Size
The yellow conker and the Ohio buckeye are easy the tallest of the buckeyes trees , with both able to produce to heights approaching or slenderly exceeding 100 feet . The Texas buckeye is favourable to be 20 pes tall , while the ruddy buckeye , while it can grow to 30 feet , is often only about 10 feet in top . The paint buckeye can reach 30 metrical foot grandiloquent , and the California variety may grow 40 feet high .
Leaves
Buckeye leaves are palmately compound , which stand for that the foliage radiate from a central point on the root in a spreading pattern . The yellow conker has from five to seven leaflets on one stem , while Ohio conker , red buckeye and painted buckeye typically have only five pamphlet . The Texas buckeye may have from seven to 11 leaflets ; California buckeye , harmonise to the " Trees of North America " templet , has from four to seven . The leaflets on buckeye Tree are similar in duration , with most in the range of 4 to 6 inch .
Geography
The buckeye with the large aboriginal range is the Ohio Ohioan , a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that produce from Ohio westward to province such as Kansas and Oklahoma . The yellow buckeye exists in states such as Kentucky , Tennessee and western Virginia and North Carolina . Red buckeye is a species of the lower Atlantic Coast and the Deep South , while paint buckeye turn from the Carolinas through Arkansas . Texas buckeye is native to easterly Kansas , Oklahoma and Texas , and the California species grows in that state .
Considerations
Buckeye tree prefer rich land , and , although they endure wraith , they grow nimble and replete in a full sunshine environment . Buckeye trees often devolve their leaf to conserve wet in times of drouth ; so keeping the ground moist will help a tree to flourish . The larger buckeyes function well in a landscape painting where they have elbow room to develop . The spectre created by their foliage will rarely allow any other vegetation to acquire beneath these Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
Toxicity
The nut that buckeyes produce is toxicant . It develops in a rounded , hard capsule that own sticker . The nut has a dark-brown colour with a light field in its center . The vernal shoots of the buckeye are also toxic , as is the tree diagram ’s bark . aboriginal Americans would take the seed and bark of the buckeye , crush them into a gunpowder and then throw the mixture into body of water , where it would interpret Pisces the Fishes immobile and easy to reap .
