Species profile
Kentucky Coffeetree
Gymnocladus dioicus
17,373 on Toronto's streets — 2.52% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms May 25 – Jun 10: greenish-white, inconspicuous
🍁 Fall colour Oct 10 – Oct 30: yellow, bipinnate leaves
Toronto history — Kentucky coffeetree — Ontario-native, once endangered, now one of the city's favourite new-planting species. Tough, architectural, and distinctive.
The Kentucky coffeetree, also known as American coffee berry, Kentucky mahogany, nicker tree, and stump tree, is a tree in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the legume family Fabaceae, native to the Midwest, Upper South, Appalachia, and small pockets of New York in the United States and Ontario in Canada. The seed may be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee beans; however, unroasted pods an
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 18m high by 13m wide |
| Growth rate | Slow |
| Sensitivity | Very Hardy |
| Best site | Lawns and boulevards |
| Plants under overhead wires | Yes |
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| West Humber-Clairville | 1,255 |
| York University Heights | 799 |
| Humber Summit | 644 |
| Yorkdale-Glen Park | 312 |
| Woburn North | 269 |
| Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown | 258 |
| Oakdale-Beverley Heights | 256 |
| Milliken | 254 |