Kentucky Coffeetree Scientific Name: Gymnocladus dioicus
Description: A remarkably rough, coarsely branched tree with equally remarkable, crooked, coarse twigs, and long, compound leaves. Its usual height is 40-60' and in favorable environment 90-100', with a trunk diameter of 3'. Bark exceedingly rough, very light brown, or dark brown, thin-scaly, without distinctly perpendicular seams, the boughs and spreading branches conspicuously rough and scaly.
Habitat: Common in rich woods or alluvial soil, and is distributed from central New York west to Nebraska and south to Tennessee.
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Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: USDA Forest Service - Northeastern Area Archives from www.forestryimages.org. |
