Photomicrograph using Normaski, DIC, Differential Interference Contrast illumination of a section of Horse Chesnut TS flower bud

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The name Horse Chestnut is also often given as "horse chestnut" or "horsechestnut". One species very popular in cultivation, the Common Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum is also often known as just "Horse Chestnut". Linnaeus named the genus Aesculus after the Roman name for an edible acorn. The use of the term "horse" refers to their strength or inedibility, and does not here refer to their fitness as fodder for horses, except in folk etymology. The name buckeye derives from the resemblance of the seed to the brown eye of a buck (male deer), and Horse Chestnut from the external resemblance of the seed to a chestnut, but being inedible. The buckeye blooms in summer and the Horse Chestnut in late spring.

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Keywords: botany, bud, chesnut, contrast, dic, differential, flower, horse, illumination, interference, microscope, microtome, normaski, photomicrograph, section, ts