Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by origin]
6. biological material
7. plant material
8. [wood and wood by product]
9. wood (plant material)
10. [wood by composition or origin]
11. hardwood

Narrower term/s

• buckeye (wood)
• California buckeye (wood)
• red buckeye (wood)
• Ohio buckeye (wood)
• yellow buckeye (wood)
• common horse chestnut (wood)
• Indian horse chestnut (wood)

Anotations

Scope note:

Wood of the genus Aesculus, native to North America, southeastern Europe, and eastern Asia. While primarily grown as an ornamental tree, horse chestnuts have light, soft, tough, fine-grained wood used for artificial limbs, splints, brush handles, boxes, crates, and paper pulp.