Description

California Horse Chestnut is a majestic and iconic native tree that embodies the natural beauty and seasonal rhythm of the California landscape. Thriving with absolute neglect in our summer-dry climate, it offers a spectacular display of fragrant spring flowers, unique smooth bark, and golden fall color, making it an essential, low-water choice for authentic native gardens and oak woodlands.

• A California native superstar, perfectly adapted to summer drought; it naturally goes dormant in late summer, requiring no summer water once established, which prevents disease.

• Produces stunning, upright panicles of fragrant, creamy-white flowers in late spring that are a vital nectar source for native butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

• Features exceptionally handsome, smooth, light gray to white bark that gleams in the winter sun, providing outstanding structural interest year-round.

• Displays attractive palm-shaped leaves that emerge bright green and turn a clear, golden yellow in early fall before dropping.

• Typically grows as a large, multi-trunked shrub or small tree with a broad, rounded canopy, ideal for a naturalistic focal point.