Species profile
Yellow Buckeye
Aesculus flava
2,725 on Toronto's streets — 0.40% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms May 15 – May 28: yellow panicles
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 15: orange-yellow
Aesculus flava, also known commonly as the common buckeye, the sweet buckeye, and the yellow buckeye, is a species of deciduous tree in the subfamily Hippocastanoideae of the family Sapindaceae. The species is native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States. It grows in mesophytic forests or floodplains, generally in acidic to circumneutral soil, reaching a height
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to North America |
| Mature size | Large, 15m high by 10m wide |
| Growth rate | Slow |
| Sensitivity | Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Of note | Large, palmate leaves |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| West Humber-Clairville | 148 |
| York University Heights | 114 |
| Agincourt North | 103 |
| Milliken | 82 |
| Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn | 72 |
| Wexford/Maryvale | 57 |
| East L'Amoreaux | 54 |
| Banbury-Don Mills | 54 |