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Horse-chestnut [tree]

Aesculus hippocastanum

15,030Records since 2000
MayPeak month
124Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan104
Feb132
Mar411
Apr2,713
May3,409
Jun1,677
Jul1,528
Aug1,650
Sep1,334
Oct802
Nov303
Dec76

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England1,544
2Worcestershire England777
3Liverpool England279
4St. Helens England262
5Essex England255
6Oxfordshire England254
7Surrey England218
8Cambridgeshire England197
9Sheffield England164
10Warrington England153
11Suffolk England149
12Halton England141
13North Yorkshire England138
14Telford and Wrekin England133
15City of Edinburgh Scotland127
10,887 England343 Scotland136 Wales62 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,030
Peak month
May
Counties with records
124
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Aesculus hippocastanum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
39,055
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Sapindales
Family
Sapindaceae
Genus
Aesculus
Name with authority
Aesculus hippocastanum L.
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26899 · GBIF 3189815