The title of this article is a bit misleading. It is not about deer, nor about football, but rather about a native tree called the Texas Red Buckeye. This smallish understory tree is native to our ...

This species (“Red buckeye," Aesculus pavia) is most often a small, slender tree, or perhaps just as commonly, a shrub. Its bark is pale brown, and smooth. All winter long it has been leafless ...