American woody plant expert Dr. Michael Dirr remarks that xanthous wood ( Cladrastis kentukea ) " produce one of the most spectacular show of large flowering Tree " in the spring . The proboscis and infirm - wooded offset of a yellowish Ellen Price Wood tree visually resemble those of an American beech . It grows 30 to 50 feet tall and 40 to 55 feet wide at maturity , growing fuller and more telling in neutral to alkaline soils . delight this tree in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 through 8 .
Origins
chickenhearted woodwind is native to the interior of the American Southeast . It is rare across its aboriginal range , usually found either in woodlands or on limestone slopes . Localized pockets of trees disperse the map across southernmost Indiana , Kentucky , Tennessee and western North Carolina . The aboriginal range also stretch westward across Missouri and Arkansas to easternmost Oklahoma , allot to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center .
Identification
A member of the legume family , Fabaceae , the yellow Mrs. Henry Wood ( Cladrastis kentukea ) has a botanical name synonym of Cladrastis lutea . Other rough-cut names for yellow wood include American yellow-bellied Natalie Wood , genus Virgilia and gopherwood . Some writer drop a line the name as one word , " yellowwood tree . "
Ornamental Features
new emerging leaf are blurred and grey - green in spring but mature to a recondite lily-livered - dark-green . Each chemical compound foliage be seven to nine oval leaflet . In late bounce to other summer , the branch wind contain hundreds of droop clusters of white pea - shaped blossoms . They are fragrant and resemble the flowers of a wisteria vine . According to the " A - izzard Encyclopedia of Garden Plants , " sometimes the floral display occurs conspicuously only in alternating age . In fall the leaf turns prosperous - yellowness to Robert Brown .
Growing Requirements
Plant a scandalmongering woodwind instrument tree in a sunny location where the territory is fertile and well - draining . It support all soil pH case . When rise in a timberland setting , the industrial plant is much more just in habit , but when provided rich room to grow it becomes a full , rounded tree big for subtlety . The University of Connecticut ’s flora database cite that scandalmongering wood often keep on humiliated leg that join the trunk at 6 feet above the ground . The woodwind is weak , and therefore the tree should be plant in a position shelter from wind . If pruning is want , tackle the undertaking either after the anthesis ends or in very belated autumn or former wintertime ; otherwise , the pruning cut wounds tend to bleed excessively .
Similar Trees
The Japanese sensationalistic Grant Wood ( Cladrastis platycarpa ) digest white flush with a distinctive scandalmongering smirch on each blossom ’s root word . It grow 40 feet tall and 30 feet panoptic . Chinese yellow wood ( Cladrastis sinensis ) bears white peak with blushes of pink tones and matures 70 groundwork grandiloquent and 20 to 30 base wide-eyed .
