Cheesecutter
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I've been going to cut this tree for several years but WOW those thorns are unreal. They are thick like that 10 feet up the trunk. I was told it is black locust, but if that's BL....I don't like it!
Honey locust, AKA "thorny" locust.
Makes good firewood, but awful stuff to work around. The thorns not only poke , but they seem to have something that makes them sting and swell.I dont like em at all and they seem to grow like weeds around here.
Ron
... Then the scientists got involved and bred the thorns and eventually the pods out of them...
This would be the native Honey Locust. Then the scientists got involved and bred the thorns and eventually the pods out of them to make them more desirable as landscape plants. I've been trying to get some to grow near the back of my property but no luck so far. Maybe I just need to move to Iowa. I just think they are interesting and I've heard the deer love the pods.
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