This is at a friend's house, I haven't seen it in person, just have these pics (sorry, it's not much to go on). Can anyone tell what kind of tree this is? My guess was black locust
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Tree id from leaves
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Hard to see the bark from that distance but I don't see BL....maybe Honeylocust. the twig color should ring a bell with someone but I haven't seen much Honeylocust.
Tree doesn't look like honey or black locust, but the leaves do resemble black locust.
eta: are the leaves like 3/4", or bigger like 2"?
eta: are the leaves like 3/4", or bigger like 2"?
I'm going to "guess" honey locust. The top picture appears to be a single leaf, which means it's double-compound, which means it's HIGHLY likely to be honey locust.
That being said, without closer pictures of the tree, a scale in the leaf pictures for size-reference, and knowing for certain that it's a double-compound leaf or a twig full of compound leaves, I can't be certain.
That being said, without closer pictures of the tree, a scale in the leaf pictures for size-reference, and knowing for certain that it's a double-compound leaf or a twig full of compound leaves, I can't be certain.
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husky345 vermont resolute
Feeling the Heat
It's honey
Black Locust is a single-compound leave and has deeply furrowed, coarse bark that is quite thick.
Honey Locust is a double-compound leaf, has somewhat smooth, sheet-like bark, and may or may not have thorns (there are thornless varieties mainly marketed for landscaping etc)
With the recent addition of the picture of the bark my guess was confirmed. The leaf, is, in-fact a double-compound honest locust leaf. You will notice on the latest picture that the "knots" that the thorns typically grow from on Honey Locust are present and there may be some thorns present.
Pic of Black Locust bark:
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CincyBurner
Minister of Fire
thornless honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis)
There are several cultivated varieties of thornless honeylocust (e.g. Skyline)
Black locust bark is thick and blocky (see image above), and wood smells like peas (like legume) when fresh cut.
There are several cultivated varieties of thornless honeylocust (e.g. Skyline)
Black locust bark is thick and blocky (see image above), and wood smells like peas (like legume) when fresh cut.
Fred Wright
Minister of Fire
The image in post #5 isn't black locust. BL has lumpy, rough bark, instantly recognizable even from a distance. Dad used to call it the ugliest tree he'd ever seen.
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