Red horse chestnut is a hybrid of common horse chestnut and red buckeye. It is deciduous, with palmately compound leaves and a dense rounded crown; its flowers are the main ornamental feature.
Size and growth: hybrid species about 9–12 m; cultivar may differ. Flowering: spring; pink-red flowers.
Lifespan: A numerical lifespan range is not established by the references used. These figures describe the taxon, rather than the current dimensions or health of the specimen in Prague.
Ludvík Vaculík (23 July 1926 – 6 June 2015) was a Czech writer and journalist.
He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the “Two Thousand Words” manifesto of June 1968.
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