Gymnocladus dioicus Best Seller and the same bareness shows

and the same bareness shows lower down

cardamom has been a mainstay of Ayurvedic and Unani medicine for centuries

layering out along strongly tiered branches to cover more width than height

In Chinese folk medicine the plant has a second life: the flowers

Gymnocladus dioicus Best Seller and the same bareness showsGymnocladus dioicus, the Kentucky coffeetree, is a bold, handsome native shade tree that keeps its own unhurried calendar, among the last trees to leaf out in spring and the first to stand bare in fall. That long leafless season gave the tree a curious name, which means naked branch, and the winter silhouette of thick, blunt, sculptural limbs is a feature in itself. Hillier's great manual calls the Kentucky coffeetree one of the most handsome of all