Aesculus turbinata

Species of tree

Aesculus turbinata

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Sapindales
Family:  | Sapindaceae
Genus:  | Aesculus
Species:  |

A. turbinata

Binomial name
Aesculus turbinata

Blume

Synonyms[1][2][3]

* Aesculus turbinata f. pubescens (Rehder) Ohwi ex Yas Endo
* Aesculus turbinata var. pubescens Rehder
* Aesculus dissimilis Blume
* Pawia dissimilis Kuntze
* Pawia turbinata Kuntze

Aesculus turbinata, common name Japanese horse-chestnut (Tochinoki or Tochi (トチノキ（栃の木） or トチ（栃、橡）)), is native to Japan but cultivated elsewhere. It is a tree up to 30 m (98 ft) tall. Flowers are white to pale yellowish with red spots. Capsules are dark brown, obovoid to pyriform.[4][1] The seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD.[5] Today the seeds are used in Japanese cuisine to prepare "Tochimochi".

## Etymology[edit]

Aesculus was named by Linnaeus, and the name is derived from the Roman name, aesculus, of the  durmast oak.[6]

Turbinata means ‘conical’, ‘turbinate’, or ‘top-shaped’.[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Flora of China vol 12 page 4.
2. ^ Tropicos Aesculus turbinata
3. ^ Plant list Aesculus turbinata
4. ^ Blume, Rumphia. 3: 195. 1847.
5. ^ Harlan, Jack R. (1995). The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 15\. ISBN 0-521-40112-7.Harlan cites Akazawa, T & Aikens, CM, Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers in Japan (1986), Univ. Tokyo Press; and cites Aikens, CM & Higachi, T, Prehistory of Japan (1982), NY Academic Press.
6. ^ a b Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). p 38, 391

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q1132580
* Wikispecies: Aesculus turbinata
* CoL: 65BMG
* EoL: 483851
* EPPO: AECTU
* FoC: 200013165
* GBIF: 3189819
* GRIN: 1637
* iNaturalist: 410413
* IPNI: 781631-1
* IRMNG: 11162907
* ITIS: 506070
* IUCN: 60757607
* NBN: NBNSYS0500000236
* NCBI: 83375
* NZOR: ed31e0d5-3a97-4478-86ce-e9addacaa082
* Open Tree of Life: 332616
* Plant List: kew-2624593
* PLANTS: AETU
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781631-1
* Tropicos: 50182812
* WFO: wfo-0000522367

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