Question: Having trouble iding this! Found in bath, Maine
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Having trouble iding this! Found in bath, Maine
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Dear Brearune, your plant looks to be a seedling of horse-chestnut (Aesculus hipposcastanum), a species in the soap-berry family (Sapidanceae) with opposite, palmately compound leaves. This tree is naturalized in Maine and occasionally is found in forest fragments, roadsides, or persisting from old plantings. There are other species in this genus, and identifying them confidently would require fully expanded leaves. Best wishes.
