Facts On The Buckeye Tree
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 ....