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Locust Trees

Honeylocust is a fast growing, widely adapted tree native to the Midwest and Eastern United States. It produces large, long, flat bean pods with a sweet edible pulp. Immature pods can be cooked and eaten. Young seeds taste like raw peas. Pods are considered a useful fodder for livestock.

Wood is hard and durable and imparts a desirable honeywood flavor to grilled foods. Zone 4-8.

Black Locust is native to North America, a rapid grower, and tolerates poor soils. Very hard, rot resistant, wood that can make fence posts that last 40 years or more. Highest BTU value for firewood.

It will continually re-sprout quickly from the stump if coppiced for firewood or fence post production. Young branches are very thorny. Zone 4-8.

BLACK LOCUST TREES CAN NOT BE SHIPPED TO ME, MN

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BLACK LOCUST (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Native to central eastern U.S. Legume tree that makes its own nitrogen fertilizer. Rapid grower, tolerates poor or dry soils, or clay. Very hard wood, rot resistant, making for fence posts that last 40 years or more. Highest BTU value for firewood. Will continually resprout quickly from the stump if coppiced for firewood or fence post production. Fragrant white flowers resembling pea flowers or wisteria blossoms from May to June. Makes a good bee forage and honey which is known as 'acacia honey'. Compound leaves are blue-green. Produces legume seed pods that hang from its branches. Dark rugged trunk on a fairly large tree 30-60 ft. with a 30 ft. spread. Injured roots will sucker and make new trees. Suckers should be removed unless multi-stemmed look is desired. Young branches are very thorny. Black Locust needs full sun to remain healthy and productive. Zone 4-8.

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HONEYLOCUST SEEDLINGS FROM IMPROVED CULTIVARS

These are seedlings of improved varieties selected for large, sweet pods.

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HONEYLOCUST (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis)

Fast growing, widely adapted tree with a vast native range covering the South, Midwest, and Eastern United States. Produces large, long, strappy bean pods with sweet edible pulp. Immature pods can be cooked and eaten. Young seeds taste like raw peas. Legume pods are considered a useful fodder for livestock and will otherwise litter the ground. These seedlings are from open pollinated trees that have shown to produce a good pod crop and were thornless. Juvenile plants will often have some thorns which prevent them from being eaten when young, but they disappear as the plants mature. Honeylocust can be planted as a shade tree, it has an irregularly shaped oval canopy and will grows to about 50-75 ft. Golden yellow autumn foliage is one of the earliest to defoliate. Wood is hard and durable and imparts a desirable honeywood flavor to grilled foods. Tolerant of urban pollution. Zone 3-9.

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