Species profile
Horsechestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
2,980 on Toronto's streets — 0.43% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms May 12 – May 25: large white panicles, red-throat
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 20: yellow-brown, often scorched
Toronto history — Common horsechestnut — European. Large white-panicle flowers in May, conkers in fall. An older specimen-tree choice.
Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous, synoecious (hermaphroditic-flowered) tree. It is also called horse-chestnut, European horsechestnut, buckeye, and conker tree. It is not to be confused with the sweet chestnut or Spanish chestnut, Castanea sativa, which is a tree in another fa
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Introduced (Europe) |
| Mature size | Large, 18m high by 15m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Moderately Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns |
| Of note | Large, palmate leaves |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Kensington-Chinatown | 104 |
| University | 74 |
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 72 |
| Trinity-Bellwoods | 67 |
| Roncesvalles | 65 |
| Agincourt North | 60 |
| Eringate-Centennial-West Deane | 56 |
| Banbury-Don Mills | 55 |
Notable specimens
- 125 cm DBH at 82 O'HARA AVE · view →
- 125 cm DBH at 88 ROBERT ST TORONTO · view →
- 120 cm DBH at 44 SULLIVAN ST · view →
- 117 cm DBH at 30 RECTORY RD · view →
- 115 cm DBH at 59 BRIAR HILL AVE · view →
- 114 cm DBH at 28 CANNON RD · view →
- 110 cm DBH at 19 ROSEDALE RD · view →
- 110 cm DBH at 16 ROBINSON ST · view →