Kentucky Coffee-Tree Other common names: kentucky coffeetree Scientific name: Gymnocladus dioicus Photos of Kentucky Coffee-Tree
Conversation status of this tree: at risk
Picture of Kentucky Coffee-Tree in winter
Characteristics that make them easy to be identiied: Kentucky coffee-trees have the largest leaf among all Canadian trees, the leafs can grow up to 60-90 centimeters. It produces a dark and leathery bean-like pod that contains around 4-7 seeds within and the size of its fruit is about 15 to 25 centimetres long. It’s a shade-intolerant tree, meaning that it’s usually found on the edge of a forest. And finally, most Kentucky Coffee-trees grow on floodplains(because the soil there is rich and moist). Distributi Ecological importance of Kentucky Coffee-Tree: The tree is free from serious insect or disease problems. Meaning that it can occupied soli for unwanted trees.
Importance of the free in humans perspective: One can fully bake the seed within the fruit of the coffee-tree to brew a coffee-like beverage. Furthermore, the tree was once the official state tree of Kentucky, so it has great symbolic meanings.
on of kentucky coffee-tre e in north amearca
Location of the tree in HSC Campus