Kentucky coffeetree
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K.Koch
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 21 m
- wide
- 14 m
Fabaceae
Also called Kentucky coffee tree, Kentucky mahogany, Coffee-nut tree, Stump tree, Luck bean
Formerly Guilandina dioica, Gymnocladus canadensis, Hyperanthera dioica
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 18 m to 24 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 12 m to 17 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Czech
- nahovětvec dvoudomý
- Dutch
- doodsbeenderenboom
- Estonian
- ameerika sarvpuu, kanada sarvpuu
- Chinese (China)
- 白叶肥皂荚
- Chinese
- 白葉肥皂荚
- Russian
- Гимнокладус двудомный
- Polish
- kłęk kanadyjski
- German
- Geweihbaum
- French
- Chicot du Canada, Gymnocladier dioïque, Gros févier
- Hungarian
- kanadai vasfa
- Finnish
- lännenpapupuu
- Slovenian
- Kanadski rogovilar
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Gymnocladus dioicus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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