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The seed may be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee beans; however, unroasted pods and seeds are toxic. The wood from the tree is used by cabinetmakers and carpenters. It is also planted as a street tree. From 1976 to 1994, the Kentucky coffeetree was the state tree of Kentucky, after which the tulip poplar was returned to that ...
The honey locust moth (Syssphinx bicolor) feeds on honey locust and Kentucky coffee trees while a caterpillar. The first brood of the moths emerge from hibernation in the ground in the late spring. The green larvae have several horns on the backs and reach full size in about three weeks.
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 ...
This image from a drone video shows the scope of flooding in Kentucky on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. ... "Whole entire trees have come down here and washed away," X user @oddballwx said in a video.
Here’s photos and video of damage taken by Herald-Leader staff photographers around Lexington and Central Kentucky and social media posts on the severe weather.
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.
Laci Wright, who works at nearby Coal City Coffee, watched the scene unfold. “Three ambulances drove by, and then you saw fire trucks, and the police cars, cop cars and all that stuff.
In any coffee crop, about 5–10% of fruits contain only a single bean. Called a peaberry, it is smaller and rounder than a normal coffee bean. When grown in the tropics, coffee is a vigorous bush or small tree that usually grows to a height of 3–3.5 m (10– 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft). Most commonly cultivated coffee species grow best at high ...