Horse Chestnut Bud Opening - Spring Plant Gallery
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Horse chestnut - Aesculus hippocastaneum - bud opening. These large sticky buds open up to several vivid green leaves and a panicle of white flowers that give the plant the name meaning "candle tree" in some parts of Germany as it looks like an oversized Christmas tree adorned with candles when they are all out. I love these buds and what springs from them, it's the very essence of spring time.Horse chestnuts are so called as the seeds (the conkers) were once fed to horses to cure coughs.
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