The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6
Gleditschia triacanthos, L
Gleditschia triacanthos, L.
The deciduous Honey Locust tree of North America. Height up to 80 feet. Wood hard, coarse-grained, fissile. Sown closely, this plant forms impenetrable, thorny, not readily combustible hedges. An allied species the G. horrida, Willd in East Asia. The Water Locust tree of North America (Gleditschia monosperma, Walt.), will grow in swamps to 80 feet.