Red Horse-chestnut - Aesculus carnea

A fertile hybrid it is a smaller tree than the White Horse-chestnut, with darker green leaves, some shoots lacking terminal buds. Smaller short stalked leaflets are broadest at the middle. Flowers with 4 equal plain pink or dull red petals in erect panicle. Stamens just longer than the petals. Smaller russet husked fruits with few or no spines

White flowered Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)

Mature trees, sometimes found in church yards and similar locations, and are probably the result of unrecorded planting.

Flowering - May.

Deciduous.

Occasional records, mostly from England south of the Wash.

Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was not included.