Location: North of Frear Building, Penn State
Size: Circumference: 10’8″ Height: 98′ Spread: 82′ Points: 246
Added: 2/4/91, Robert Gruver
Closely related to the horsechestnut, the Ohio buckeye is a small to medium-sized tree, which grows best on deep, fertile soils in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Ohio buckeyes usually grow to a height of 40 to 60 feet, but this particular specimen, much taller than the average, is also notable for its unusual shape. Buckeyes have five segments to their leaves, unlike the horsechestnut, which has seven.
- Buckeye nuts are actually mildly toxic in their uncooked state, but you can eat them after removing them from their shells and roasting them.
- Latin name is Aesculus glabra.
- From the Sapindaceae family.
- AKA fetid buckeye, stinking buckeye, American buckeye
- Reaches 45-60feet.
- State tree of Ohio.
