Locust, honey or black?

[miller1]

Cut this tree today and it has nasty thorns, not sure what kind of locust it is. Thorns all over the trunk but hardly any on the limbs. This stuff is heavy!!!

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[jrider]

Certainly doesn't look like any of the black locust around here.

 

[lone wolf]

Oh an an easy one, Honey Locust.

 

[Fred Wright]

That's a granddaddy right there. Yup, honey locust has the thorns.

 

[hupte]

honey locust my #1 most favorite wood to burn, after the thorns are gone

 

[daleeper]

Honey locust. Good wood, but the bugs like it as bad as they do hickory. Messy.

 

[noshow74]

My pasture is full of the damn things. They are all small but I hate the thorns with a passion. I will eradict them all one day.

Honey locust is enemy #1
Bradford pear is enemy #2

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[miller1]

How big do these oversize pricker bushes get?

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[windthrown]

Honey locust for sure, AKA: thorny locust. That stuff does not grow here on the west side of the Cascades in the PNW because it gets fungal rot with all the rain we have here. Black locust grows here though. The pioneers brought black locust with them and planted them here on homesteads for making fence posts with. In some ghost towns here that is all that is left; the black locust groves that they planted. Good firewood. No one here knows what it is so I can usually snag it on CL.

HL usually grows to about 75 ft., but can reach twice that height in ideal conditions. Generally as the HL trees get older, they have few or no thorns on the outer and upper regions. Trees made from cuttings from the outer/upper thornless areas of a HL tree will produce a thorness HT tree. So they can be tamed.

 

[miller1]

Thanks for that info windthrown, I had no idea they could get that tall.

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[Landmark]

Yep yep and yep

 

[mr.finn]

WOW that is a big one