Gymnocladus dioecious , or Canadian cannon , or Kentucky coffee tree ( lat. Gymnocládus dióicus ) - a tree; a species of the genus Gymnocladus of the legume family.
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It occurs in the United States and Canada from Texas and Louisiana to Ontario and South Dakota [2] , in lowlands, river floodplains, and on the lower wet tiers of the Appalachian Mountains .
Cultivated in Eurasia.
Botanical illustration from the book of
Francois Michaud The North American sylva , 1819
Fruits of Gymnocladus dioecious
These are tall trees up to 30 m high, with a trunk up to 90 cm in diameter, divided into three to four powerful processes at a height of 3-4 m. With free development, a narrow pyramidal crown is formed up to 8 m in diameter.
In America, the chest is called a coffee tree, since in the past its roasted seeds were used as a cheap substitute for coffee .
Thanks to twice-cirrus large leaves giving a beautiful appearance to plants, it is used as an ornamental plant.
Gymnocladus dioecious was used in Native American folk medicine [3] . It is used in homeopathy .
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Gymnocladus dioicus information from NPGS-GRIN
- ↑ Gilmore, MR Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region. // SI-BAE Annual Report. - 1919. - # 33. - P. 89, 90.
- Botany. Encyclopedia "All plants of the world" / per. from English (Ed. D. Grigoriev et al.) - Könemann, 2006 (Russian ed.). - S. 418. - ISBN 3-8331-1621-8 .