Leaf Color Range

This tree is especially attractive to wildlife that eat the honey-like sweet pulp of the pods which the tree produces. While it has been heavily planted, it is just as often found in the wild. Other species are easily recognized by the pin-like thorns on the trunk. It has a high crown of spreading branches.
Height: 30’-70’ high; 30’-70’ in width.
Leaves: Alternate; pinnately and bipinnately compound. 4”-8” long, 3/16”-5/8” wide. Shiny dull green above, dull and yellow-green and nearly hairless beneath, turning yellow in autumn.
Habitat: This tree grows quickly in the city and is widely planted throughout Pittsburgh’s parks and streets. In moist soils or river flood plains in mixed forests, from Pennsylvania to Nebraska and south to Texas and Mississippi.