Gleditsia triacanthos L.

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Photo: Mark Hyde
Meikles estate, Borrowdale.

Synonyms:
Common names:	Honey locust (English)
Description:	Shrub or small tree, armed with stout 3-forked spines, grown as a garden ornamental and known as a very occasional naturalized escape. Bark fairly smooth but splitting into vertical fissures on older stems. Leaves variably pinnate or 2-pinnate, even on the same branch, with a single pair of pinnae; leaflets 8-13 pairs per pinna, opposite, oblong-elliptic, up to 3.5 cm long, glossy green; margin finely scalloped. Flowers in axillary heads, unisexual on different trees, small, green. Fruit a flat woody pod, 15-30 cm long, often twisted when older, indehiscent.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	triacanthos: 3-spined
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:	North America.
Growth form(s):	Tree.
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Image last updated:	Sunday 1 February 2009
Literature:

Flora of Zimbabwe: Gleditsia triacanthos
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Gleditsia triacanthos

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Gleditsia triacanthos
African Plant Database: Gleditsia triacanthos
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gleditsia triacanthos
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