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Black Locust Tree
Robinia pseudoacacia
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Anderson @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Black locust is a leguminous deciduous tree that grows from 30 to 80 feet tall. It is often attacked by stem borers and other insects, causing deformed growth and dieback. It has a shallow, fibrous root system and spreads by underground rhizomes. Young saplings have smooth, green bark; older trees have deep, furrowed, shaggy, dark bark with flat-topped ridges. Leaves are alternate and pinnately compound with 7 to 21 leaflets. Leaflets are thin, elliptical, dark green above, and pale beneath. Smaller branches are armed with heavy, paired thorns. Flowers are pea-like, fragrant, white and yellow, and born in large drooping racemes. Seed pods are shiny, smooth, narrow, flat, 2 to 4 inches long, and contain 4 to 8 seeds. Black locust stands are easy to identify in spring because they typically form multiple-stemmed clones and are slow to leaf out. They produce showy flower clusters in May or June.
Distribution and Habitat: Black locust is a translocated deciduous tree that is frequently found in upland prairies, savannas, roadsides, old fields, and woodlots in Wisconsin. Black locust prefers humid climates with sandy, loamy, well-drained soils in open, sunny locations.
Black locust is native to the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to northern Georgia and Alabama and to the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Also in southern Illinois and Indiana. Black locust has been extensively naturalized in the United States and Canada.
Flowering Period: May - June
| Trunk: |
Usually low branching, 40 to 50 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet in diameter, with a rounded or irregular crown. The bark is reddish-brown to dark-brown and is deeply furrowed. |
| Leaves: |
Alternate, pinnately-compound, 8 to 14 inches long, with 7 to 27 elliptic to oblong-ovate leaflets that are 1.5 to 2 inches long. The leaflets are on petioles .2 to 2 inches long, are a dark blue-green above and paler green below, and have entire margins. |
| Inflorescence: |
Drooping racemes that are 4 to 8 inches long and are composed of 10 to 35 flowers. |
| Flower: |
Very showy and quite fragrant, papilionaceous, about .75 inch long, corolla of five white petals with a greenish-yellow patch on the banner. |
| Fruit: |
Flat legume pod, 2 to 4 inches long, smooth, brownish-black, narrow, containing 3 to 12 kidney-shaped seeds. The pods persist through the winter. |
Black Locust Trees... The trees are between 12" and 24" tall when shipped... And shipped Bare Root...
Shipping and planting times are winter and spring months. Please choose from following months: November thru April. But we will make exceptions with limited warranties due to heat during shipping.
And, any tree shipped during normal green and growth months ... which is May through October is going to arrive with brown, burned leaves. They will recover and go green again, but they are going to look dead on arrival.
PRICING AS FOLLOWS:
2 Black Locust Trees = $12.95 plus $9.50 s/h.
10 Black Locust Trees = $33.95 plus $12.50 s/h.
25 Black Locust Trees = $49.95 plus $20.00 s/h.
50 Black Locust Trees = $89.95 plus $25.00 s/h.
100 Black Locust Trees = $178.00 plus $32.50 s/h.
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If you have any questions, please send email
to jlsutton@apex.net. |
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