US source for Robinia (locust) cultivars

Europe seems to have a great number of Robinia cultivars selected for timber, milling, round wood, biomass, or flowers (honey). I have seen a few American sites selling shipmast locust stock, but none of the others. Not even the variety named "Appalachia". Maybe my Google Fu isn't up to task. US forestry departments and tree nurseries don't say what, if any, criteria they selected their stock by.

Does anybody have leads on these cultivars? I certainly can do my own selection, but it seems a shame not to take advantage of other people's hard work.

John Elhardt wrote:Europe seems to have a great number of Robinia cultivars selected for timber, milling, round wood, biomass, or flowers (honey). I have seen a few American sites selling shipmast locust stock, but none of the others. Not even the variety named "Appalachia". Maybe my Google Fu isn't up to task. US forestry departments and tree nurseries don't say what, if any, criteria they selected their stock by.

Does anybody have leads on these cultivars? I certainly can do my own selection, but it seems a shame not to take advantage of other people's hard work.

I ordered unnamed black locusts from coldstream farm at the recommendation of a consultant I worked with over the winter.  They haven't arrived yet, but the price is good.  

https://www.coldstreamfarm.net/product-category/deciduous-trees/locust/

... I really hoped someone might have a source. What we have here is a business opportunity. We need to start selecting honey locusts for increased pod production.

There's a few places you can go: Edible Acres, Food Forest Farm, Forest Farm offer them bareroot whilst Twisted Tree Farm sells open polinated seeds of Hungarian cultivars bred for timber production. The seeds from Twisted Tree Farm appears to be the only way to buy them if you live outside of the US since most nurseries that carry them don't ship internationally.

Note the owners of Edible Acres, Twisted Tree Farm and Food Forest Farm all work together and share material so it is likely that the germoplasm of all 3 comes from the same Hungarian cultivar(s) mentioned by Twisted Tree on their website. Forest Farm says that their material is sourced from the original wild "shipmasts" in Long Island.