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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
Honey locust pods are 7 to 18 inches long, twisted or curled, brown and leathery. Both pods have hard brown seeds or “beans,” since both species are members of the Fabaceae or bean family.
Aside from “honey locust” G. triacanthos gets called “black locust” (one of at least two trees with that common name) and thorny locust; three-thorned acacia (it’s not an acacia either.); “honeyshucks ...
The honeylocust is a well-formed beautiful tree. Although it no longer needs its thorns to fend off giant sloths, it is quite effective at thwarting adventure-seeking kids.
Many thousands of years ago, the vicious thorns on a honey locust protected a tree’s foliage from giant ground sloths and other now-gone large mammals, which fed on pods that fell to the ground.
Two weeks ago, at the request of an 86-year-old widow, Craig and Donnie Edwards of Skyview Tree Service pulled hundreds of invading honey locust trees out of the ground and hauled them away. The ...
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.