I burned a few pieces of Honeylocust the last two nights, and I'm sorry to say that I wasn't impressed with it, and yes it was dry, not wet or green. I wouldn't be so much in a hurry to get it if I see it in the future, and I have had the same results in the past with it too. Just not that impressed with it.
And yes, your pictures are Black Locust...
What is it about honey locust that you don't like - doesn't produce heat, hard to work with? Have you burned black locust, and if so did you like it?
That's just the way it burns. I love it in my cat stoves, where I'm not looking for a pretty fire for a long time. I usually load it in the back on a good coal bed (not raked forward) and put some Cherry or something on the front of the load to kick off the burn. Eventually the BL gets going....and burns a long, long time.It burned, but it didn't have a lively flame to it like other hardwoods I've got; I felt like I had to add some more wood to it to get it going... I have burned Black Locust too and have had some over the years that rocked like other fellas on here say but most of that too for me doesn't really burn well, it more like burns slow with a low flame even with the air vents wide open. Maybe it's my draft and set-up
Honeylocust and Black Locust arent related to each other.
Well, sorta. They are both members of the pea (fabaceae) family, but that is a big family with many genera. Pea plants and acacia trees are in that family also, but they don't resemble each other very much.
You are right about the confusion caused by common names. In the taxonomy of animals, they have conventions about the correct common name of any given species. No such luck with plants. Better to risk sounding pretentious and use the scientific binomial to avoid confusion.
Anyone burn both, and how do they compare to each other?
Same thing. When I first learned about plants, it was the "leguminosae" family, then it was changed to "fabaceae." Most family names end in "-aceae" and taxonomists decided that they all should. For the same reason "compositae" become "asteraceae" and "cruciferae" became "brassicaceae."The "National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees" has them and Water locust and a few others listed in the "Legume" family, for what that's worth...