Texas Gardening: Question about Texas Buckeye, 1 by texasflora_com

texasflora_com wrote:
Most Buckeye loose their leaves in late Summer because of dry conditions or fungus in wet conditions. We have lots of the Reds here but have not seen any White here but have seen then in west Texas when I was young. I too would love to have the White (Texas) Buckeye but would need to sweeten the soil here for them to grow. I do not remember ever seeing the Mexican Buckeyes in the wild but have seen them in landscapes. They have beautiful pink blooms and set pods of three seed. They are not a true Buckeye and sometimes called False Buckeye. I do have seeds for the Red Buckeye but you would need to acidify your soil in West Texas.

Kenboy, I actually found a good amount of seeds from the mexican buckeye regardless of being very late in gathering. Mostly still in the shell. The animals ate almost all that had dropped. Some were obviously even skilled at eating the inside and leaving the black shiny hull behind. I don't understand why you would think I'd need to acidify my soil for any of the false buckeyes. They grow prolifically in our limestone encrusted soil and even in solid caliche. All the ones I found in this one area alongside a highway are growing on very dry, steep rocky slopes. The mexican buckeyes have lost no leaves despite extremely dry conditions. I used to live in Brownwood and the mexican buckeyes were much more common there and they were also all growing on very dry rocky limestone slopes. And even though I'm very far west of you, I'm not in west Texas, I'm in central Texas or slightly north central Texas. Cross Timbers.