When I came out, all four tires were completely flat because of honey locust thorns. Mercifully, I believe I've gotten rid of all those old trees that had come up in fence rows.

Gleditsia triacanthos | Family: Fabaceae Submission: Nathaniel Reed ‘20 Natural History: A tolerant, thorn-clad tree native to the central United States, honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is a ...

My next favorite is honey locust (Gleditsia tricanthos). No, not the native honey locust with the frightening thorns. I'm talking about the thornless variety (G. triacanthos var. inermis) that is ...

This native tree comes with its own defense system in very large thorns on the stems and trunk. Meet the honey locust. Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee explains that large, long yellow seed pods ...

My friends and I were often foolish fellows, but we were never so crazy as to attempt to climb a honey locust tree. Usually we attached a rope to a rock, tossed it over a limb and stripped off the ...

Pods of black locust are 2 to 4 inches long, flat, brown and papery when dry. Honey locust pods are 7 to 18 inches long, twisted or curled, brown and leathery.

The tree was a towering honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos), about 60 feet tall, its trunk armored with spines. Ascending such a plant would be a thorny problem indeed, and the tree’s veneer of ...

The thorns are very sharp, and a honey locust is not a tree you want to try and climb. The thorns on a water locust are not as large or do not form into large clusters as those on a honey locust.

Craig Edwards of Skyview Tree Service points out that touching those thorns can make people sick. Skyview removed the honey locust trees from the Hall County property.

Q: Attached are two photos of a thorn tree I came across while cutting firewood. I've never seen anything like it – thorns encircling the entire trunk, and huge thorns (5 to 6 inches long) at that.