Scientific name: Gleditsia triacanthos
Family: FABACEAE
Common names: “Common honeylocust”
Plant Type: Deciduous tree
Conditions:
Zone: 3-8
Light: Full sun
Exposure: Exposed
Soil: Average – humus rich, handles clay
Moisture: Moist well drained – drought
Aesthetic:
Plant Size: 60-80′ H & W
Leaf and Stem shape: Bipinnate leaves with golden yellow-green leaflets, on thorny stems
Flower: Inconspicuous greenish yellow-white flowers in racemes, followed by long and flat seed pods
Pruning: Minimal, requires little to none
Maintenance: Low, considerably messy seedpods and leaflets
Landscape use: Not recommended, the thornless form can be used for street trees, lawn and garden trees, specimen
Propagate: By seed and grafting
Pests & Disease: Susceptible to leaf spot, canker, mildew and rust, as well as several insects
Comments: Native the eastern USA, species not recommended because of its thorns and self sowing, but the thornless form and its many cv’s can be useful
Cultivars: Gleditsia triacanthos f. infermis – Thornless variety with many ornamental cultivars
G. t. f. infermis ‘Sunburst’ – most popular golden foliage
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