Dwarf Red Buckeye

Aesculus pavia 'Humilis' Sapindaceae

Growth habit

Shrub

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Zucker Shrub Collection

Source of plant

Eastern Plant Specialists

Description

A low, even prostrate shrub with red flowers borne in small panicles. In commerce by 1826, and figured as A. humilis Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1018. It is sometimes grafted as a standard or half standard. Such, perhaps, were the trees once known as 'pavia pendula'.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4

Special characteristics

growth habit