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Plant Guide Plant Materials Plant Fact Sheet/Guide Coordination Page National Plant Data Center HONEY LOCUST Gleditisia triacanthose L. Plant Symbol = GLTR Contributed By: USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center & the Biota of North America Program R. Mohlenbrock USDA, NRCS, Wetland Science Institute @ PLANTS Alternate common names Common honey-locust, honey-shucks locust . honeylocust, honey locust Uses Honey-locust is widely pl anted as a hardy and fast- growing ornamental. It is often used in extreme urban stress areas such as parking lot islands and sidewalk tree squares and has been planted for erosion control, for windbreaks and shelterbelts, and as a vegetation pioneer for rehabilitation of strip- mine spoil banks. Because of the small leaflets and open crown, the trees cast a light shade that permits shade-tolerant turfgrass an d partial-shade perennials to grow underneath. Cultivars have been selected for crown shape and branch angles and leaf color, and most are both thornless and fruitless. Over-use of honey-locust in cities has led to recommendations that its use be discouraged until adequate biodiversity is restored. Honey-locust wood is dense, hard, coarse-grained, strong, stiff, shock-resistant, takes a high polish, and is durable in contact with soil. It has been used locally for pallets, crates, general construction, furniture, interior finish, turnery, firewood, railroad ties, and posts (fence posts may sprout to form living fences), but it is too scarce to be of economic importance. The wood also was formerly valued for bows. The geographic range of honey-locust probably was extended by Indians who dried the legumes, ground the dried pulp, and used it as a sweetener and thickener, although the pulp also is reported to be irritating to the throat and somewhat toxic. Fermenting the pulp can make a potable or energy alcohol. Native Americans sometimes ate cooked seeds, they have also been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. Honey-locust pods are eaten by cattle, goats, deer, opossum, squirrel, rabbits, quail, crows, and starling. White-tailed deer and rabbits eat the soft bark of young trees in winter, and livestock and deer eat young vegetative growth. Honey-locust is planted around wildlife plots and into pastures and hayfields to provide high-protein mast. Cattle do not digest the seeds, but sheep do. Status Please consult the PLANTS Web site and your State Department of Natural Resources for this plant™s current status, such as, state noxious status and wetland indicator values. Description General : Pea Family (Fabaceae). Native trees growing to 20 meters tall, with an open crown, armed with thick-branched thorns to 20 cm long on the main trunk and lower branches. Bark blackish to grayish- brown, with smooth, elongate, plate-like patches separated by furrows. Leaves are deciduous, alternate, pinnately or bipinnately compound, 10-20 cm long, often with 3-6 pairs of side branches; leaflets paired, oblong, 1-3 cm long, shiny and dark
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