Black Locust Honey Locust Difference. It's easy to tell honey locust (gleditsia triacanthos), which grow well in u.s. The wood samples are honeylocust. Different species of locust trees grow to various heights and may have different colored flowers or differences in the spines and leaves.
Black locust is native to the southeastern united states but has been cultivated elsewhere, due to its rapid growth, high adaptability and a high tolerance for the pollutants of modern life.
35), whereas honey locust has none. Locusts consume leaves and the tender tissues of plants. These spines can make handing the wood difficult so wearing a nice pair of leather gloves or latex dipped. Honey locust grow faster and are shorter lived than black locust, have edible seeds, strongly thorny trunks and branches, (see below) yet otherwise smooth if anything could make these plants any more different, it is certainly related to their scents. It's easy to tell honey locust (gleditsia triacanthos), which grow well in u.s. .differences of honey locust (herein referred to as hl) and black locusts (herein referred to as honey locust also have seed pods but they are distinctly longer pods like catawba or kentucky the seeds pods of honey locust are often used as sweet feed for livestock and a sedating treat for that. Black locust is native to the southeastern united states but has been cultivated elsewhere, due to its rapid growth, high adaptability and a high tolerance for the pollutants of modern life. I'm looking at the end grain cut with a very sharp la block plane, and with a 5x it looks like honey locust.
