YELLOW, OR SWEET BUCKEYE; BIG BUCKEYE (Msculus 

 octandra, Marsh). 50 to 80 feet. Large, handsome tree with 

 pyramidal head of small, pendulous limbs, and orange-brown, 

 smooth twigs, with large, blunt winter buds. Bark brown, 

 dark, with shallow fissures and scaly plates. Wood light 

 soft, creamy white, close-grained, difficult to split, used for 

 artificial limbs, wooden ware, and pulp. Leaves of 5 to 7 

 elliptical or obovate, tapering, sharply serrate leaflets, 4 to 6 

 inches long, on the end of a petiole of equal length; dark yellow- 

 green above, dull beneath, turning yellow in autumn. Flow- 

 ers showy, yellow, tubular, in dense, terminal, erect, pubescent 

 clusters, 5 to 7 inches long, in early spring, with leaves. Fruit 

 2 to 3 inches in diameter, globular, smooth, pitted, 3-valved 

 husks, containing brown nut, sweet enough to be eaten by 

 cattle. Dist.: Pennsylvania to Alabama; west to Iowa and 

 Texas. Cultivated; especially a red-flowered form found OD 

 mountains from West Virginia southward. 



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