#gleditsia

[faguscarolinensis]

Gleditsia triacanthos / Honey Locust at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Rarely found in cultivation this Gleditsia delavayi was growing over this mown path in Cambridge Botanic Garden, UK. This deciduous tree has fearsome thorns on the trunk and branches which may not make it a popular species for ornamental situations!

Jill Raggett

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 19 November 2017

In an urban environment this Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'Sunburst' (honey locust) forms an excellent small deciduous tree that tolerates pavements well. The tree has airy, ascending branches with a foliage of bipinnate, small, leaflets, that are golden-yellow in early summer, becoming greener as the season progresses. In autumn there are large these large flattened seed-pods.

Jill Raggett 


[faguscarolinensis]

Gleditsia triacanthos / Honey Locust at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[rosemultimedia]

A photograph of a Gleditsia sprout.

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Gledtisia

phylum: Angiospermae > class: Eudicots > order: Fabales > family: Fabaceae > genus > species

Honey locust genus, named after Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Director of the Botanical Garden at Berlin

Gleditsia amorphoides 

Gleditsia aquatica – water locust/swamp locust

Gleditsia assamica

Gleditsia australis 

Gleditsia caspica – Caspian locust/Persian honeylocust

Gleditsia fera

Gleditsia japonica – Japanese honey locust

Gleditsia medogensis 

Gleditsia microphylla 

Gleditsia rolfei 

Gleditsia sinensis – Chinese honey locust

Gleditsia triacanthos - honey locust/thorny locust

[swamp-boggler]

Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos).

Dover Village Park, OH.

The honeylocust is a neat native North American tree that is characterized by its huge spikes and doubly pinnately compound leaves.

When young, the spikes are a fiery red-orange.

The spikes are likely a vestigial feature that protected the tree from browsing during the time of megafauna, but no longer have any practical use besides looking badass.