. Common trees of Ohio : a handy pocket manual of the common and introduced trees of Ohio. Trees -- Ohio. 80 Common Trees HONEY LOCUST Gleditsia tciacanthos, Linnaeus THE Honey Locust, also called Sweet Locust, Thorn Tree and Thrce-thorned Acacia, is the most beautiful large pod-bearing tree of Ohio. The leaves are alternate, singly or doubly compound, 7 to 8 inches long. When singly compound they have 18 to 28 leaflets, and when doubly compound have 8 to 14 pinnae each with 18 to 20 leaflets. The flowers are greenish, appear about May or June, and are of two kinds. The pollen- bearing arc arr
. Common trees of Ohio : a handy pocket manual of the common and introduced trees of Ohio. Trees -- Ohio. 80 Common Trees HONEY LOCUST Gleditsia tciacanthos, Linnaeus THE Honey Locust, also called Sweet Locust, Thorn Tree and Thrce-thorned Acacia, is the most beautiful large pod-bearing tree of Ohio. The leaves are alternate, singly or doubly compound, 7 to 8 inches long. When singly compound they have 18 to 28 leaflets, and when doubly compound have 8 to 14 pinnae each with 18 to 20 leaflets. The flowers are greenish, appear about May or June, and are of two kinds. The pollen- bearing arc arranged in short tassels; the pod- bearing occur in few- flowered clusters. The fruit is a thin, flat, more or less twist- ed, reddish-brown pod, 10 to 18 inches long, containing many small flat seeds and often per- sist far into winter. The bark on young ^ . ^ honey locust ' * u Twig, natural size. Leaves, pod and thorn, Stems is smooth, One-fourth natural size. brownish, dotted with many oblong breathing pores. On old trunks it becomes grayish-brown to black and roughened with shallow fur- rows and firm ridges. The branches and trunk usually bear very distinctive, large, three-pronged sharp-pointed thorns. The twigs arc smooth, glossy, greenish-brown. The buds arc very small, usually 3 at a node, and placed above one another. The wood is hard, heavy, strong, reddish-brown with pale sapwood. It is rather durable in contact with soil and used for posts, rails, and general construction work. The Honey Locust has a rather extensive range from On- tario to Kansas and south to Pennsylvania, Florida and Texas. It occurs locally throughout Ohio, but is most coin- mon in the southwestern section. It has been planted in some localities for ornamental purposes. Under favorable conditions it will grow to a height of 80 feet and a diam- eter of 4 feet. It is a handsome park tree and is growing in favor for ornamental Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page i
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