genus Aesculus

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genus Aesculus - deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern AsiaAesculusdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationfamily Hippocastanaceae, Hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family - trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsuleAesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut, buckeye - tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds