Red Buckeye

Member of Horse-Chesnut Family

Blooms: April - May

This plant is very pretty and an early bloomer in spring.

It can grow up to 10 ft. tall and will come back year after year. They are plentiful in North East Texas. It has very beautiful red blooms.

This plant is a food source for wildlife but is toxic to humans. In the fall, it drops all it's leaves and the seed pods, shown below, burst open, dropping about 3 - 4 seeds for pod. In spring, new Buckeye come up from these large seeds. They dry to a very dark, shiny brown and are about the size of a prune. They are beautiful scattered throughout the woods.

And he said, "So is the kingdom of GOD, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how."

Mark 4:26-27