Aesculus turbinata
| Aesculus turbinata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Aesculus |
| Species: | A. turbinata |
| Binomial name | |
| Aesculus turbinata Blume | |
| Synonyms[1][2][3] | |
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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 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]
References
- 1 2 Flora of China vol 12 page 4.
- ↑ Tropicos Aesculus turbinata
- ↑ Plant list Aesculus turbinata
- ↑ Blume, Rumphia. 3: 195. 1847.
- ↑ 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.
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