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Gleditsia triacanthos
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Photo: Mark Hyde
Meikles estate, Borrowdale.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Meikles estate, Borrowdale.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Meikles estate, Borrowdale.
Photo: Mark Hyde
Meikles estate, Borrowdale.
Photo: Mike Davies
Kambanji Drive, Harare.
Photo: Mike Davies
Kambanji Drive, Harare.
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| Common names: | Honey locust (English) |
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| Status: | Introduced |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree, armed with stout 3-forked spines, grown as a garden ornamental and known as a very occasional naturalized escape. Bark fairly smooth but splitting into vertical fissures on older stems. Leaves variably pinnate or 2-pinnate, even on the same branch, with a single pair of pinnae; leaflets 8-13 pairs per pinna, opposite, oblong-elliptic, up to 3.5 cm long, glossy green; margin finely scalloped. Flowers in axillary heads, unisexual on different trees, small, green. Fruit a flat woody pod, 15-30 cm long, often twisted when older, indehiscent. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | triacanthos: 3-spined |
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| Worldwide distribution: | North America. |
| National distribution: | C |
| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 1 February 2009 |
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Other sources of information about Gleditsia triacanthos:
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Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Gleditsia triacanthosFlora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Gleditsia triacanthos
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Gleditsia triacanthosAfrican Plant Database: Gleditsia triacanthos
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Gleditsia triacanthos
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Gleditsia triacanthos
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Gleditsia triacanthos
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Gleditsia triacanthos
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gleditsia triacanthos
JSTOR Plant Science: Gleditsia triacanthos
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gleditsia triacanthos
Plants of the World Online: Gleditsia triacanthos
Tropicos: Gleditsia triacanthos
Wikipedia: Gleditsia triacanthos
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