Common Honeylocust
(Wide & Flat: Alternate Arrangement)
Medium sized, commonly 40'-50' but can reach 140' high. Found
naturally on rich, moist bottomlands in southwestern Pennsylvania, but widely
planted as an ornamental throughout. A thornless variety with clear yellow fall
color has been developed for the nursery trade. The strong, hard wood is used
for fence posts and general construction, but it is not widely available. Many
animals, including cattle, feed on the pods and seedlings.
Alternate, once and twice compound, 7"-8" long,
having even numbers of 1" long leaflets with fine-toothed margins, petiole
grooved above and somewhat hairy.
Twigs
Moderately stout, shiny, smooth, reddish to greenish brown,
commonly mottled or streaked, and often with long, branched, sharp thorns. Twigs
have no end buds and very small side buds.
Fruit
A leathery pod, 10"-18" long, flat, often twisted
with numerous very hard, dark brown, oval seeds. Pods contain a sweetish, gummy
pulp.
Bark
Greenish brown with many long raised, horizontal lines of
lenticels on younger trees, becoming brown to nearly black with long, narrow,
scaly ridges separated by deep fissures and often covered with clusters of large,
branched thorns.
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