Every tree I’ve seen around here—whether feral, landrace-like, or what I believe to be native—seems to follow the same general pattern. The same is true of the street trees.
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Of course. But are they Gleditsia triacanthos?
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That is what the thread is about.
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They put in some of the purple flowered ones as street trees in a nearby suburb here. They are gorgeous! Hard to believe they aren’t tropical. Haven’t had time to grow particularly large yet, but based on driving through that suburb, I would highly recommend.
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pollen on my honey locust. it’s kind of gross this time of year, this stuff makes a carpet under the tree all over the herb patch and the strawberries.
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I’ve tasted wild ones and damnnnn…I suddenly realized why they’re called HONEY Locust (guess I was sloowww)! But, the seed pod flesh tasted like sweet honeycomb!
Suddenly, my opinion of these trees did a 180. Probably still don’t want one in your yard with those vicious thorns, but I’d leave them be out in the woods as at least their seed pods are such a real treat.
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Just get the thornles ones
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the millwood variety im growing is supposed to be thornless with big sweet pods.
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I read an article from the late 1800’s about a man who figured out that cows eating honey locust pods produce extra rich milk. So he creatively figured out a way to harvest a ton of pods and fed his milk cows all they would eat. It worked like a charm and he got a huge increase in milk production. He also got a pasture full of honey locust seedlings the next spring.
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in the book ‘‘ tree crops’’ it says something similar as well as fattening hogs on them. ill be planting out mine this fall.
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