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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Caesalpiniaceae
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K.Koch
Kentucky coffee-tree
Gymnocladus: Greek for "naked" and "a branch," referring to stout branches with no leaves for many months
dioicus: Greek for "two houses"
Hazardous 
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | perennial tree to 100' tall |
| Flower: | greenish-white, softly hairy; petals and sepals nearly the same and longer than the stamens inflorescence a terminal panicle |
| Fruit: | widely oblong, woody, flat but thick pods 3"-10" long; a few thick, hard seeds separated by pulp |
| Leaf: | almost 40" long, bi-pinnately divided into 3-6 pairs of leaflets each with several pairs of leaflets |
| Habitat: | moist; rich woods |
| Notes: | in Native Americans encampments along riverbanks the seeds were used as game pieces where they were accidentally planted |
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