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cabbagebark tree

Andira inermis · Fabaceae

cabbagebark tree (Andira inermis)
Photo: (c) Mario Guzmán, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · via iNaturalist

cabbagebark tree (Andira inermis) is a perennial tree in the Fabaceae family. It is native to North America. USDA records it as hardy in zone 10 and warmer, down to about 32°F.

At a glance

Typetree USDA
Lifecycleperennial USDA
Native statusnative USDA
Mature height90 ft USDA
Lightfull-sun USDA
Water needlow USDA
Growth raterapid USDA
BloomJune–August USDA
Flower colorWhite USDA
Hardiness zones10 and warmer USDA
Guild layercanopy Derived
Nursery availabilityRoutinely Available USDA

USDA quoted from the USDA PLANTS database · Derived computed by a fixed rule from those columns. No value on this page is estimated.

Growing conditions

It needs full sun. USDA rates it as having low water needs once established. Its cold limit is zone 10; USDA publishes no warm-end limit, so gardeners in warmer zones should check local heat tolerance separately.

Size and growth

At maturity it reaches about 90 ft, making it a large tree that will dominate its site. It grows quickly, which matters when you are timing a planting around the layers above it.

Bloom period

USDA records a bloom period of June through August. The flower color USDA records is white. Bloom timing is how the Guild Builder overlaps flowering across a planting so something is in flower for as much of the season as possible.

Bloom period is a claim about when this plant flowers. It is deliberately not a pollinator rating — no dataset we trust publishes one, so we do not make that claim. See Data & sources.

Role in a guild

Canopy. In a layered planting this is the tallest layer of a planting — it sets the light budget everything beneath it lives on. We derive the layer from the plant's growth habit and mature height using a fixed rule, so the same inputs always produce the same layer.

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Tags

evergreendrought-tolerantsalt-tolerantwet-tolerantsandy-soildeer-resistantnativenitrogen-fixerfull-sunfast-growingcanopy

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Where this data comes from

Every value on this page comes from the USDA PLANTS database record for symbol ANIN, or is computed from those values by a fixed rule. Nothing here is estimated or model-generated. Where USDA publishes no value, this page omits the claim rather than filling the gap.

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