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| Submission
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Rebecca Dolan |
| Species Common Name: |
Yellow-wood |
| Species
Scientific Name: |
Cladrastis lutea |
| Tree Category: |
Unique |
| Significance of Tree: |
This tree was
planted when the Butler campus was Fairview Park or when the site was
Butler Botanical Garden, maintained by the Botany Department staff in
the 1930's. The species is rare in Indiana, known only from a few
sites around Yellow-wood State Forest in Brown County. It is not
common anywhere, but its main range is in the Appalachians. It
is in the bean family, with compound leaves and sweet-scented, white,
wisteria-like flowers in the spring. The bark is smooth gray like
beech. Generations of kids have enjoyed climbing on the accessible low
branches. It is a very cool tree! |
| Address of Tree: |
Holcomb Gardens, Butler
University. In the back of the Gardens, past the Persephone
statue, toward 52nd St. |
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