About:

Yellow-Horn with the scientific name (Xanthoceras-Sorbifolium) belongs to sapindaceae family, and a species utilized for oil in China for decades. It has huge potential for producing oil which can be processed into bio diesel. It has been listed as one of the top eight species of trees world wide by renown horticulturalist Professor Li Chang Xiao for producing oil for bio fuel. The latitudinal range of China is geographically similar to the United States. Yellow-Horn grows well in large geographical areas of the world. It grows in winter seasons to minus 21 degrees Fahrenheit. Yellow-Horn can assist in eliminating desertification and erosion.

Benefits:

• Yellow-Horn can live for over two hundred years.

• Crop yields reach 95 percent by year five of age.

• It grows in areas with precipitation as low as 6 inches annually.

• It matures in height to 22 feet and 14 feet wide.

• With proper nutrition and moisture fruit yield can be 8 tons per acre.

• Average oil yield is about 850 gallons per acre. Higher yields are possible.

• The pericarpof the fruit contains 12.2 percent furfural.

• The seed and capsule combined has 40% oil content. Seed alone has 72%.

• Yellow Horn is USDA approved for entry, and is non-evasive.

• The leaves are alternate, pinnate, 6"-8" in length with an odd number of leaflets.

• Leaflets are approximately 2" to 2 1/2" in length.

• Flowers cluster in panicles on terminal ends of branches & lateral branches.

• Individual flowers are white, and approximately 1 inch across.

• The throat is initially yellow then turns red in maturing.

• Flowering occurs in early to middle April and lasts for about 10 days.

• Fruit is a 3 valve capsule containing 3 seeds 1/4 to 3/8 inches diameter.

• Fruit matures in July or August.

• Flowering can commence in the second year of age.

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