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buckeye nuts, extracting the tannic acid for use in making leather. The nuts can also be dried, turning dark as they harden with exposure to the air, and strung into necklaces similar to those made from the
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has little use as a timber tree due to its soft, light wood. Although occasionally seen in cultivation, the large, copiously produced fruits make it generally undesirable as a street tree. Extracts from
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and humans. The young foliage, shoots, and bark are also poisonous to some degree. However, Native Americans reportedly did eat buckeye fruit after boiling it to extract tannin.
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The name stems from Native Americans, who called the nut "hetuck", which means "buck eye". The markings of the nut resembled the eyes of a
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of Alabama and Mississippi. It is also found locally in the extreme southwest of
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It is found in a variety of natural habitats, including streambanks, upland
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Evaluation of Cytotoxic Compounds from The Buckeye Tree: Aesculus glabra
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County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA)
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in spring, red, yellow to yellow-green, each flower 2–3 cm (
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A buckeye nut used in an early 20th-century ad, evoking the
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regions of the United States, extending southeast into the
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are palmately compound with five leaflets 8–16 cm (3–
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Index

Ohio Buckeye

Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Sapindales
Sapindaceae
Aesculus
Binomial name
Willd.

Sapindaceae
Midwestern
Great Plains
geological Black Belt
Ontario
Walpole Island
Lake St. Clair
mesic forests
calcareous
leaves
flowers
panicles

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