coffee tree, Kentucky

coffee tree, Kentucky,

common name for the plant species Gymnocladus dioica, a tree of the family Leguminosae (pulsepulse,
in botany, common name for members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), a large plant family, called also the pea, or legume, family. Numbering about 650 genera and 17,000 species, the family is third largest, after the asters and the orchids.
..... Click the link for more information.  family) and native to the E United States. The seeds of the woody pods have been used as a substitute for coffee.