Share what you know about honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)

"I think the easiest way to eat them is processed thru livestock."

Are you talking about eating the livestock... or picking the seeds out of manure piles?

KIDDING

R Scott wrote:We have some that drop caltrops (4-6 thorns shaped like a jack, no matter which way it lands there is a thorn sticking UP). They will go through 12 ply tractor tires, and any boot other than vietnam era punji boots. Those trees have to die, I will resort to chemicals if I have to. But I am learning to appreciate them in other areas. If I could keep them thornless I would have a lot more of them.

why not remove the thorns and use them for somthing productive;;;;(treating bowel cancer!!!)

Spent a lot of money on tractor tire repairs, even had a Dr visit to deal with an infection from a thorn in my shoulder.
But with that said, They are a beautiful wood when milled but do have a tendency to split and crack with worked.
I am working some right now to make my posts for my barn. Oh and to deal with the tires, I had them all foam filled

Does anyone know anything about using gleditsia sinensis for anthelmentic /vermifuge???.
would it be possible to use Tricanthus???
I ve heard that the bark is used

Has anyone ever coppiced Honey Locust?  Black Locust will coppice like nothing I have ever seen. I wonder if Honey's do?

Not puposefully, but in clearing brush with loppers I’ve often topped small trees, intending to return with a larger tool. Young trees, anyway, thrive under this treatment.  I have a truce with the older trees on my property; we wage war in the airspace below nine feet in altitude so that I can walk without being shredded, and they can live unmolested in the volume above that.  The initial battles (where I fight those long spiked horizontal limbs back to the trunks) are never bloodless!

If you live with these trees, titanium insoles are a great thing to have.

Personally.I like the bean.

cover them in water, bring to boil, pour off tannin water.
again, cover the beans with water, bring to a boil, pour.water off.

dry the beans and store.

this process makes a very mild bean which I've used in chili
The bean is so mild, I've used it as a cereal too with honey.

Lastly, I made a coffee by roasting the bean

Because, half of a generation ago, someone commented on the delicious flowers, just to note for future readers :no no no.

There are 2 kinds of locust that are very common throughout the world, Gleditsia triacanthos, the Honey Locust under discussion here, and Robinia pseudoacaicia, Black Locust.

The thorns are different, (Robinia has single thorns, Gleditsia clusters), leaves are different ((Robina has larger not-glossy leaflets) etc. At first glance, they can be confused.

Robina has delicious delicious flowers in the spring. The flavor is so fresh and delicate it seems it would be lost in a fritter, though scores of recipes exist. Enjoy.

Gleditsia flowers are poisonous.

Likewise, the seedpods of Heney Locust (Gleditsia) are divine. Honey is right. The ground seeds make a rich gluten free flour.


The seedpods if the Black Locust (Robina) are poisonous (not sure about for animals but def for humans). Do not eat.


Thank you for your attention to this matter lol