Kentucky Coffeetree
Gymnocladus dioicusKentucky Coffeetree is a tree native to Central Texas that grows 75–100 ft tall and 50 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms white in early summer. Good for moths.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (4–6 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 75–100 ft
- Spread
- 50 ft
- Bloom
- Early Summer · white
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, deep, loam, moist, rich, sand
- Wildlife
- Supports moths
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.
also grows from seed It starts readily from seed, so a packet from a native-seed supplier, or seed collected with permission, is often the easiest way to get a plant no nursery pots.