Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: It's about time...Yellowwood, 1 by ViburnumValley

ViburnumValley wrote:
Enough talking about it...let's get a Cladrastis kentukea thread rolling.

Formerly known as Cladrastis lutea (with the lutea referring to the yellow coloration of the interior wood and/or the yellow dye that could be derived from it), American yellowwood or Virgilia is a fine North American native tree that ought get more use.

I'm going to start posting pictures (such as they are), and borrow liberally from previous postings on this plant. Pile on with your own ideas, images, wants, needs, fears, and aspirations. The yellowwood will take all comers.

From 1995, the old codger at Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia.