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Is the difference between horse chestnut and soapberry the same plant?

Marie Schrader
2020-11-16 11:23:35
Green cutting is a commonly used method of propagation, to prepare clean and breathable soil for flowers. A branch with a length of 10-13cm and a bud eye is cut on the mother plant, the bottom is cut obliquely and the redundant leaves are removed. After soaking in rooting water or dipping in rooting powder, insert it into the soil and spray some water appropriately. Hydroponics is also easy, you can put branches in water to root, or you can clean plants with roots and put them in water to breed.

1. Difference

1. Different shapes

Aesculus is a deciduous tree, up to 25 meters in height.The bark is dark brown or grayish brown.Branches are branchlets, cylindrical, yellow-brown or grey-brown in color, with yellowish lenticels.Leaves are palmately compound, composed of 5-7 leaflets, petioles 10-12 cm long, gray puberulent.The fruit is spherical or obovoid, blunt at the top and slightly concave in the middle, yellow-brown.Flowering period is from April to May, and fruiting period is in October.

Sapindus mukorossi is a large deciduous tree with a height of about 20 meters.The bark is gray-brown or black-brown.The leaves are simple pinnate, with 5-8 pairs of leaflets, usually subopposite, thin papery, oblong-lanceolate or slightly falcate.The fruit is orange-yellow and turns black when dry.Flowering from June to July.Fruiting: September-October.

2. Different growth habits

Aesculus chinensis prefers light and tolerates shade.It is suitable for growing in warm environment, but it can also tolerate cold.It grows better in deep, fertile, moist and well-drained soil.The germination ability is strong, but the growth speed is medium to slow.China's Yellow River Basin and the eastern provinces are cultivated, wild horse chestnut only in the Qinling Mountains.

Sapindus mukorossi has strong cold resistance.It has no strict requirements for soil, deep roots and strong wind resistance.It can not tolerate water and humidity, but can tolerate drought.Germination ability is weak, do not bear pruning.It grows fast and has a long life.It grows mostly in the south of the Yangtze River Basin in China, as well as in the Central and South Peninsula, India and Japan.

Is it the same plant

Not the same plant.The two plants belong to Sapindales, but not the same plant, in shape and growth environment may be a little similar, but there are still big differences between the two.

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