Yellow Buckeye

Yellow Buckeye is a much better plant then Ohio Buckeye or Horsechestnut. Large vase shaped tree with yellow flowers. They say in the E...Read Moreast about how to tell the two larger buckeyes apart the same way they say how to tell the two spruces apart--- look at the ground! Ohio Buckeye and Black Spruce are usually found on low ground; and Yellow Buckeye and White Spruce are usually found on high ground.

I've seen a few planted in southeast Pennsylvania doing well. It is a pretty tree with yellow flower clusters in mid-May to early June an...Read Mored good orange fall color. It grows about 1 foot/year and lives about 150 to 250 years. Its official native range is southwest PA to north GA up to southern OH and IN. It can be a bottomland tree to a north slope mountainous plant in or close to forest. It can get hot, dry wind leaf scorch or the buckeye leaf blotch disease, though not as bad as the Horsechestnut. It makes a fabulous park tree and is still good for a residential landscape despite the messy fruit drop in August-September. Buckeyes make nice decorations and necklaces and the squirrels do eat them. Some native plant nurseries sell them and some large conventional nurseries as Oakland Nurseries in central Ohio and The Growing Place in Aurora-Naperville, IL. East to propagate by seed by planting in a pot, digging the pot into the ground for the winter, and then it germinates in spring.

This is easily the most ornamental of all the large buckeyes for use in the United States. The foliage largely remains clean of the folia...Read Morer diseases that make a shambles of Ohio Buckeye, European Horse Chestnut, and others. On many trees, good fall color can be expected.

A tree usually found in mature woods, this Buckeye is unique because the outer husk is smooth ,rather than thorny.

It can ...Read Moreget quite large and has been recorded at heights at 90' or more.

The yellow flowers grow in clusters that are from 4" to 7" long and appear in May to June. The mature fruits are ready by Sept-Oct.

Unlike the other Buckeyes, the smooth fruits are eaten by cattle and hogs. They are also said to make an exellent paste when powdered and mixed with water.

The wood is light and tough.