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- Title
- Buds of yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava, Sapindaceae)
- Author
- Omar R. Lopez University of Wisconsin Department of Botany Madison Wisconsin 53706 USA
- Keywords
- Aesculus flava
- Description
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Buds of yellow buckeye (Aesculus flava, Sapindaceae) showing expanding
new leaves under an open canopy in early spring (ca. 15 March) Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, Tennessee, USA. Yellow buckeye is the earliest tree species to
produce a flush of new leaves in the southern Appalachians. Early leaf emergence
increases light capture before canopy closure and may provide a substantial
- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Additional data
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copyright: Omar R. Lopez, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Ecology
- Botanical Name
- Aesculus flava
- Common Name
- Yellow Buckeye
- Location Area
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Location State
- Tennessee
- Location Country
- USA
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