Description | Espresso Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus) is a fast-growing, seedless cultivar with a better branching canopy than the species. |
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Plant Type | Trees Deciduous |
Hardiness Zone | 4 |
Sunlight | full |
Moisture | average |
Soil & Site | average |
Flowers | male cultivar |
Fruit | male cultivar, fruitless |
Leaves | alternate, bipinnately compound leaves, may have up to 100 leaflets, can reach 36" by 24", fall yellow color erratic |
Dimensions | 55 by 40 feet (HS) |
Propagation | grafting |
Cultivar Origin | Selected from a planting of specimens in 2011 at Davis, California USA. Introduced in 1993 by the Schmidt Nursery of Boring, Oregon USA. (#93) |
Misc Facts | Genus name come from gumnos meaning naked and klados meaning branch as the tree is bare of leaves for many months. Genus name means dioecious, having separate male and female plants. AKA-Coffee Tree |
Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson) |