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Marécage dans une frênaie à frêne rouge.
Photos 1-2: 02/05/2010
Photo 3: 06/05/2012
Photos 4 à 8: 30/05/2013
Photos 9-10: 05/06/2013
Photos 11-12: 03/05/2016
Photo 13: 24/04/2017
Photo 14: 23/04/2018
Photos 15-16::06/05/2018

A very fat tree (nearly 1M DBH), but not particularly tall (perhaps 12M). Apparently it's female because a few fruit receptacles were visible on its branches.

Locality obscured to protect the landowner's privacy.

My thanks to Albert Garofalo for bringing me to this site.

Both parent species present on site, acorn caps strongest indicator for this specimen- more turbinate than rubra, some loose scale tips, scales much more acute than rubra. Buds also suggestive with their dense pale pubescence on bud scale faces but otherwise like rubra. Leaves variably intermediate.

M.J. Oldham & S.J. Darbyshire 2312; replicates to MICH, CAN, TRTE, NHIC# 00098; identified as Aesculus glabra by M.J. Oldham; mesic oak-maple-ash woods, apparently native, well away from houses or roads; flowering; abundant regeneration, several large trees; photo; see Darbyshire, S. J., and M. J. Oldham. 1985. Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra, on Walpole Island, Lambton County, Ontario. Canadian Field-Naturalist 99(3): 370-372.

Tentative. Only tree of its type in this stand, with C. cordiformis and C. ovata the only other species present. Bark and form pretty intermediate, foliage quite hairy like C. ovata but mostly 7 leaflets and leaflet shape more like cordiformis, no hair tufts on teeth. Buds similar to those on digitized herbarium specimens, leaning more towards ovata. C. laciniosa is also possible in the area but none of the scant fruit remains on the ground suggested anything like that. Seasonally flooded area.

Stumbled upon this lush green beauty on this cold January day! Unlike Sweetbay magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), whose leaves are pale on the underside, the Southern magnolia leaves on this tree were just a shade lighter than the top surface (apparently, there are two varieties of M. grandiflora - one whose abaxials turn brown and one whose abaxials turn pale/white - I am not sure which one this was tree was). M. grandiflora leaves are tougher and more leathery than M. virginiana. The white flowers of M. grandiflora can get to be 30 cm across, while the flowers of M. virginiana are only a few inches across. The crushed leaf of M. virginiana has a pleasant citrusy aroma - I did not detect a distinctive smell when I crushed a leaf from this tree. Towards the end of the photo series, close-ups of the leaf surfaces are shown. There was a rusty brown pubescence on the central vein of the leaf abaxial, near the base of the leaf. This tree was about 20 feet tall I think. M. grandiflora is native to the southern and Gulf states, including Louisiana and Mississippi, Florida and grows as far west as Texas. New York is definitely way out of its growing range, so this must be an escapee from cultivation. Or perhaps someone secretly planted this tree here....