Horse Chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
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- Type: Flowering Plant
- Family: Sapindaceae
- Genus: Aesculus
- Species: hippocastanum
- Colour: Red
- Colour: White
- Habitat: Hedgerows
- Habitat: Meadows
- Habitat: Waysides
- Habitat: Woodlands
- Site:East London
- Site:UK
- Site:Wanstead Park
- Month:July
- Photographer:DW