Buckeye Burl (Aesculus articulta) - A most unusual burl. Color ranges from bright yellow to cream with streaks of black, blue, green & white throughout. Wild grained with many "eyes". This is a beautiful burl which takes a very fine polish and is exceedingly difficult to turn on a lathe. Buckeye grows from 30 to 70 ft (9 to 21 m) high and up to 2 ft (0.6 m) in diameter. It grows best in rich moist soil along the banks of streams and in river bottoms. Buckeye matures in 60 to 80 years. It is one of the initial trees to leaf-out in the spring. The twigs have a foul odor when broken. 
   In the United States, buckeye ranges from the Appalachians of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina westward to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Buckeye is not customarily separated from other species when manufactured into lumber and can be utilized for the same purposes as aspen, basswood, and sap yellow-poplar.