Plants of Jeanne Mance
One of the species I observed during the lab was the Aesculus hippocastanum, or more commonly referred to as "Horse-Chestnut." It is a part of the kingdom Plantae, of the order Sapindales, of the family Sapindaceae, of the genus Aesculus, and is the species Aesculus hippocastanum (1). A unique adaptation of the Horse-Chestnut belongs to it's seeds. The seeds are covered with spines and contain a toxin, an adaptation to protect the embryo (2). An adaptation that all my observations share is that they have shallow roots to better get nutrients from the richer top soil (3).
(1) http://www.onezoom.org
(2) http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2013/phillips_reb2/adaptation.htm
(3)https://www.thinktrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Plant-Adaptations.pdf
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