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The Kentucky coffee tree (Gymnocladus dioicus), also known as American coffee berry, Kentucky mahogany, nicker tree, and stump tree, [4] is a tree in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the legume family Fabaceae, native to the Midwest, Upper South, Appalachia, and small pockets of New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada.
Gymnocladus (Neo-Latin, from Greek γυμνὀς, gymnos, naked + κλάδος, klados, branch) [2] is a small genus of leguminous trees. The common name coffeetree is used for this genus. [ 3 ] It includes six species native to eastern North America and southeastern Asia.
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These trees were arranged to create a colorful tropical effect. [5]: 131 These coexisted with some American trees never native to the area, such as Kentucky coffee tree, yellowwood, and cucumber magnolia, and a few exotics, such as Phellodendron and Sophora. Smaller natives include sassafras.
Chhe 14:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC) I hear it was once the coffee bean tree, it is even on earlier flags of KY but once the big mining companies came in they did not want the Eastern Ky people to be able to make a living at selling coffee beans (only working in mines) and had them outlawed in the state of Kentucky so the state tree was changed to ...
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Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. [5] The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics, but include such temperate species as the honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It has the following clade-based definition: