Aesculus turbinata
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Aesculus |
| Species: | A. turbinata
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| Aesculus turbinata Blume
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Aesculus turbinata, common name Japanese horse-chestnut (Tochinoki or Tochi (トチノキ（栃の木） or トチ（栃、橡）)), is native to Japan but cultivated elsewhere. It is a tree up to 30 m (98 ft) tall. Flowers are white to pale yellowish with red spots. Capsules are dark brown, obovoid to pyriform.[4][1] The seeds were traditionally eaten, after leaching, by the Jōmon people of Japan over about four millennia, until 300 AD.[5] Today the seeds are used in Japanese cuisine to prepare "Tochimochi".
Etymology
[edit]Aesculus was named by Linnaeus, and the name is derived from the Roman name, aesculus, of the durmast oak.[6]
Turbinata means ‘conical’, ‘turbinate’, or ‘top-shaped’.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Flora of China vol 12 page 4.
- ^ Tropicos Aesculus turbinata
- ^ Plant list Aesculus turbinata
- ^ Blume, Rumphia. 3: 195. 1847.
- ^ Harlan, Jack R. (1995). The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-521-40112-7.Harlan cites Akazawa, T & Aikens, CM, Prehistoric Hunter-Gathers in Japan (1986), Univ. Tokyo Press; and cites Aikens, CM & Higachi, T, Prehistory of Japan (1982), NY Academic Press.
- ^ a b Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). p 38, 391
External links
[edit]- The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research: Tochimochi
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