Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Gymnocladus
Dioicus
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Kentucky
Coffeetree or Kentucky Coffee Tree |
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Our current inventory of Gymnocladus Dioicus
(Kentucky Coffeetree or Kentucky Coffee Tree) is presented below by five
(5) available sizes along with their individual wholesale price (cost varies
per size and quantity).
Gymnocladus
Dioicus
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known as: |
Kentucky
Coffeetree |
Kentucky
Coffee Tree |
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| 2.0"
(inches) |
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$
115.00 |
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2.5" (inches)
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$ 170.00
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3.0" (inches)
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$ 240.00
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3.5" (inches)
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$ 300.00
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4.0" (inches)
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$ 380.00
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The
Gerdes Fact Sheet
Scientific
Classification
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Kingdom...:
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Plantae |
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Division...:
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Magnoliophyta |
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Class...:
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Magnoliopsida |
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Order...:
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Fabales |
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Family...:
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Fabaceae |
| Subfamily...: |
Caesalpinioideae |
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Genus...:
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Gymnocladus |
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Species...:
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Dioicus |
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The Gymnocladus Dioicus is commonly known
as the Kentucky Coffeetree or Kentucky Coffee Tree. It is native
to the midwest of North America and was formerly the state tree of Kentucky.
The Kentucky Coffeetree varies from 75
to 100 feet high with a trunk 2 to 3 feet in diameter which usually separates
10 or 15 feet from the ground into three or four divisions which spread
slightly and form a narrow pyramidal head; or when crowded by other trees,
sending up one tall central branches shaft to the height of fifty or seventy
feet. Branches stout, pithy, and blunt; roots fibrous.
The Kentucky Coffeetree has immense bipinnate
leaves, 2 to 3 feet in length, and about 2/3 as broad. The leaves emerge
later in the spring than those of most other deciduous trees, and fall
earlier in the autumn.
Among the trees of the eastern United States,
there are two others with similarly large leaves: the Honey locust (Gleditsia
triacanthos) and the Devil's Walking-Stick (Aralia spinosa). The expanding
leaves are conspicuous because of the varied colors of the leaflets; the
youngest are bright pink, while those which are older vary from green to
bronze.]
The bark of the Kentucky Coffeetree is
ash-gray and scaly, flaking similarly to black cherry, but more so. The
flowers are dioecious, and the fruit is a hard-shelled bean in heavy, woody,
thick-walled pods filled with sweet, thick, gooey pulp. The shape of the
pods varies somewhat: pod length ranges from 5 to 10 inches; unfertilized
female trees may bear miniature seedless pods. The beans contain the toxin
cytisine.
The peculiarly late-emerging and early-dropping
leaves, coupled with the fact that the large leaves mean few twigs in the
winter profile, make it a tree that is ideal for urban shading where winter
sunlight is to be maximized (such as in proximity to solar hot-air systems).
The common name "coffeetree" derives from
the use of the roasted seeds as a substitute for coffee in times of poverty.
They are a very inferior substitute for real coffee, and caution should
be used in trying them as they are poisonous in large quantities.
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