Tree Identification

[jhzawada]

I have some trees that I would like to identify. I live in Cincinnati, ohio and I have a number of large trees on a piece of property I own that have a cluster of large thorns that grow out of the trunk the tree. What kind of tree is this. Can anyone help?

Thanks, John

 

[monkeypuzzle]

My guess is Honeylocust (Gleditsia triancanthos)

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Here is a bad one!

This is a set of compound leaves.

Here is the sourse page

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/plants/g/gletri/gletri1.html

 

[jhzawada]

That's the one, thanks

 

[Timothy Kasulin]

ouch

I once had to climb 1 of those and cant count the times I got poked in the butt OUCH it sure hurt

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

You cannot pay me enough!

Actualy you would have to pay me to cut everyone of those sprears off as I go up.

 

[sgreanbeans]

okay, jon what is a black locust?, ive was taught that tree in the picture was a black locust! I wonder how many people think im crazy now!

 

[underwor]

sgreanbean,

Here is a good site for description. Don't worry I still screw some id's up after 34 years. Bob

http://depts.clemson.edu/extfor/publications/bul117/images/Robinia_pseudoacacia.gif

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

The worst is when the customer corrects you. I can dig it when the pop the cultivar off "no that's a Cleavland maple" so I go into what a cultivar is and why the selected that form.

But when I cuise by and say "the apple over there" and they say "No that's a plum." D'oh!

I realy love it when I'm stumped and they thell me what it is.

I hate putting "tree on courner of house" on a bid sheet.