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Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch
Fabaceae (Leguminosae, Papilionaceae) (APG IV)
Kentucky coffeetree, chicot tree, dead tree, stump tree
Akzessionnummer: LG-X-202-17853
Pflanzjahr: 2003


Taxon concept: The Plant List (2010)
Distribution: Eastern and Central North America: Canada: Ontario; USA: northeastern, north-central, northern and southern States of the Great Plains, southeastern

Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch - Accepted: Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch bei Zander 2008; Familie: Caesalpiniaceae (Zander 2008)
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch - : bei Zander 2008; Familie: Caesalpiniaceae (Zander 2008)
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch - Synonym: Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Fabaceae (Leguminosae, Papilionaceae) (APG III)
Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch - Accepted: Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Fabaceae (Leguminosae, Papilionaceae) (APG III)
Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch - Accepted: Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Fabaceae (Leguminosae, Papilionaceae) (APG III)
Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch - Accepted: Gymnocladus dioica (L.) K. Koch bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Fabaceae (Leguminosae, Papilionaceae) (APG IV)

Flowers
dioecious or polygamodioecious flowers
Flower ecology
animal-pollinated (bumblebees, digger bees, butterflies, hummingbirds)
Life form
tree
Foliage persistence
deciduous
Fruits
fruit is a thick, woody legume, filled with a sweet gelatinous substance; fruit usually persists indehiscent on the tree during winter
Fruit ecology
water-dispersed (hydrochorous) (in prehistorical times presumably zoochorous by the now-extinct American mastodons or other mammals)
Soil conditions
preferentially on sunny, moist, humus-rich, limestone soils
Natural occurrence (habitat)
deciduous woodlands, bottomland woodlands, riverbanks; rocky, open wooded hillsides
Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)
temperate, mixed mesophytic deciduous forests
Constraints according habitat
tolerates drought, occasional flooding and urban pollution
Usage
as ornamental tree, in landscape plantings and parks; wood is used for cabinet works, furniture, fencing and railway sleepers; fruit is used as a soap due to high content of saponins; the roasted seeds were used as a coffee substitute

Erhardt, W., Götz, E., Bödeker, N. & Seybold, S. (2008): Der große Zander. Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. Band 2. Arten und Sorten. Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart (Hohenheim), 18. Aufl., 2103 S.;

The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;

Zaya, D. N. & Howe, H. F. (2009): The anomalous Kentucky coffeetree: megafaunal fruit sinking to extinction?. Oecologia, 161(2): 221-226.;





Last update:
Taxonomic update: Helmut Dalitz on: 25.2.2022
Update of the description: Matthias Krause; latest by: Matthias Krause on: 18.3.2019

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