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honey locust, leguminous deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) of the family Leguminosae (pulse pulse, in botany, common name for members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), a large plant family, called also the pea, or legume, family. Numbering about 650 genera and 17,000 species, the family is third largest, after the asters and the orchids.
..... Click the link for more information. family), native to the eastern half of the United States but planted as a shade tree in many regions of the United States and in other countries, where it is sometimes naturalized. It has heavily fragrant flowers attractive to bees, compound leaves made up of small leaflets, and large branching thorns. The pods, which usually twist with age, are brown, flat, about 12 to 18 in. (30.5–45.7 cm) long, and have a sweet, edible pulp that has been used to make beer. Pulp of Asian species has substituted for soap. Wood of the honey locust is durable and has been used chiefly for fence posts and crossties. A thornless variety is widely planted in the N United States as a street tree. Other trees called locust belong to the same family. The honey locust is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.

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The giant honey locust tree was toppled by a gust of wind as rain and hail swept the Pennsylvania battlefield where 50,000 Confederate and Unionist soldiers died.

Gettysburg: US civil war 'witness tree' toppled by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Downtown's biggest landlord invested $8 million in the renovation of the park, which now features a pink granite ground cover, table seating, 500 in-ground lights and a grove of honey locust trees.

Almost five years since it was badly damaged on September 11, ... by Real Estate Weekly

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This time I found the stand, high in a honey locust tree.

New kid in town: one of the biggest whitetails taken from ... by Beraldo, Daniel / Petersen's Bowhunting

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