Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffeetree)
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Notes
Key Characteristics
- Leaves alternate, bipinnate, short stalked with no terminal leaflet, ovate, acute, enitre, paler beneath
- Bark thick, dark gray, deeply fissured
- Buds small, sunken into the twig and surrounded by a collar of wood
- Flowers white, forming in June
- Twig is stout, rigid, blunt, with dense reddish pubescence, large obvious leaf scars, and orange lenticels
- Fruit is a legume with large hard shelled seeds embedded in a sticky sweet sap
- Pollinated by insects, shade intolerant
- Found on river floodplains and terraces
- Sourced from "Michigan Trees"
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Many come from Steve Baskauf at Vanderbilt University