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Also known as 'Compacta', Gleditsia sinensis 'Inermis', Gleditsia aquatica 'Elegantissima', 'Globe Honey Locust' and 'Bushy Honey Locust', this cultivar had become very rare by 1996. [46] It is a bushy tree with smaller leaflets with slow growth, only reaching about 4 meters (13 ft) when 25 years old. [ 50 ]
Gleditsia / ɡ l ɪ ˈ d ɪ t s i ə / [2] (honey locust) is a genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native to the Americas and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch , director of the Berlin Botanical Garden , who died in 1786.
Gleditsia triacanthos (honeylocust) [86] Some thornless varieties are popular urban ornamentals, especially near pavement or where only partial shade is desired. Often seen in damp bottomlands or limestone soils. Uses: timber; landscaping, pulpwood. [87] All
Any of a number of tree species in the genera Gleditsia or Robinia, including: Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), a leguminous tree with pods having a sweet, edible pulp; Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a leguminous tree with toxic pods; Water locust (Gleditsia aquatica), a leguminous tree with one seed per pod
Other specimens include alders , pecan (Carya illinoinensis), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), dogwoods , ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), thornless honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis), Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus), black tupelo , swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor), willows , and baldcypress .
The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics, but include such temperate species as the honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It has the following clade-based definition:
Gleditsia × texana; Gleditsia triacanthos This page was last edited on 15 September 2015, at 09:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Levine, Adam; Cardillo, Rob (2007). A guide to the great gardens of the Philadelphia region.Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-511-0; Schlereth, Thomas J., "Early North American Arboreta", Garden History, Vol. 35, Supplement: Cultural and Historical Geographies of the Arboretum (2007), pp. 196–216.