If you see a fully-mature red horse chestnut in bloom, you’re unlikely to forget it. It grows up to 30 to 40 feet, and in mid-spring will be covered with clusters of reddish pink flowers.

Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the family Sapindaceae is a medium-sized (up to 40m) deciduous tree ...