A healthy tree that is fairly fast growing when young! Female produce large, moderately showy seedpods, and mature trees provide bright shade that makes for prime understory plantings.

Pollination: Male and female needed. Our trees are too young to be sexed.

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun/Shade

Soil Moisture: Wet Mesic, Mesic

Soil Type: Loam

Height: 60’-100’

Width: 40’-60’

Bloom Color: Green, White

Bloom Time: May-Jun

Fruit: Large nuts in a thick, locust-like seedpod mature in fall.

Fall Color: Yellow

Root Type: Branching

Notable Wildlife Interactions: Flowers attract bumblebees, large butterflies, and hummingbirds. Hosts the honey locust and bisected honey locust moths. 

Notes: Most trees have either male or female flowers, but some have both. Has a slowly suckering habit so tends to grow in colonies in the wild. Seeds were once ground and roasted to produce a ‘coffee-like’ drink, hence the common name.