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Aesculus
(buckeye)

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Aesculus (buckeye)

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Last modified
22 November 2019

Datasheet Type(s)
Host Plant

Preferred Scientific Name
Aesculus

Preferred Common Name
buckeye

Taxonomic Tree
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae

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Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

Aesculus L.

Preferred Common Name

buckeye

International Common Names

English: horse chestnut; horsechestnut
Spanish: castano
French: marronnier d'Inde

Local Common Names

Germany: Rosskastanie
Italy: castagno d'India
Netherlands: paardekastanje

EPPO code

AECSS (Aesculus sp.)

Taxonomic Tree

Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Hippocastanaceae
Genus: Aesculus

List of Pests

Major host of:

Choristoneura rosaceana (oblique banded leaf roller); Cossus cossus (carpenter moth); Inonotus hispidus (shaggy bracket)

Minor host of:

Apiognomonia errabunda (anthracnose); Chaetocnema confinis (flea beetle); Diaspidiotus perniciosus (San José scale); Epidiaspis leperii (European pear scale); Neonectria ditissima (Nectria canker (apple, pear)); Popillia japonica (Japanese beetle); Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (mulberry scale); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Rosellinia necatrix (dematophora root rot); Strawberry latent ringspot virus (latent ring spot of strawberry); Xylella fastidiosa (Pierce's disease of grapevines); Zeuzera pyrina (wood leopard moth)

Associated with (not a host):

Diaspidiotus ostreaeformis (pear oyster scale)

Host of (source - data mining):

Anoplophora glabripennis (Asian longhorned beetle); Phytophthora cactorum (apple collar rot); Pulvinaria regalis; Scolytus intricatus (European oak bark beetle)

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