The Red Buckeye is a large shrub or small tree.

During the football season, bright red Buckeye paraphernalia pops up not only throughout Columbus, where the university is, but across the state.

Aesculus pavia: red buckeye (eastern North America)

In the center is a gray circle with a red Buckeye leaf and the word OHIO repeated continuously around the edge.

Aesculus pavia, known as Red Buckeye or Firecracker Plant, is a species of deciduous flowering plant.

Hybrids of Red Buckeye with Yellow Buckeye (A. flava) have also been found, and named Aesculus x hybrida.

Aesculus x carnea, or red horse-chestnut, is an artificial hybrid between A. pavia (red buckeye) and A. hippocastanum (horse-chestnut).

The right shoulder held a gray circular patch with a red buckeye leaf and around the edge of the patch read: The Ohio State University Buckeyes.

On a bright Sunday morning in late May, a white-haired couple sat in companionable silence in the Gifford Garden, holding hands and gazing at flowering red buckeye.

Flowers of the red buckeye tree glow like little candles throughout the shady woods, and leaves of wild May apple rise among drifts of naturalized scillas and daffodils.

Red Buckeye has hybridized with Common Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in cultivation, the hybrid being named Aesculus x carnea, Red Horse-chestnut.

Experimentally, she set out a firecracker plant seed.

Members of the genus are commonly known as Firecracker plants or Coralblows.

"A firecracker plant," Irene said, recognizing it.

It has a number of local names, such as scarlet buckeye, woolly buckeye and firecracker plant.

See also Firecracker plant (Russelia)

Aesculus pavia, known as Red Buckeye or Firecracker Plant, is a species of deciduous flowering plant.

Russelia equisetiformis, commonly known as Firecracker plant, Coral plant, Coralblow and Fountain plant, is a weeping shrub in the Plantaginaceae family.

Cuphea ignea (cigar plant, cigar flower, firecracker plant, or Mexican cigar) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Cuphea of the family Lythraceae.

The 1995 winners, chosen by a panel of experts, include the snowdrop tree (Halesia diptera magniflora), which has long-lasting large white flowers and grows in sun or part shade, and a native buckeye (Aesculus pavia), whose long red-coral flowers appear in May and which does best in full sun.