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Gleditsia triacanthos
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  Gleditsia triacanthos - tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed pods; yields very hard durable reddish-brown wood; introduced to temperate Old Worldhoney locustlocust tree, locust - any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosaegenus Gleditsia, Gleditsia - deciduous trees: honey locusts |
gleditsia triacanthos
 honey locust honey locustTree grows up to 80 ft (27m) with thorns, greenish flower clusters, flat twisted fruit pods, which are antiseptic, anti-fungal, antibacterial. Pod tea used for lung, stomach and heart issues. Leaves contain anti-cancer compounds. Anything this powerful could be toxic if taken in high doses. There is a similar tree called the Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) that is toxic and doesn’t have the long branched spines on the trunk, instead having pairs of short thorns at the base of each leaf; the leaflets are also much broader on the toxic version.Gleditsia triacanthos
Synonyms for Gleditsia triacanthosnoun tall usually spiny North American tree having small greenish-white flowers in drooping racemes followed by long twisting seed podsSynonymsRelated Words- locust tree
- locust
- genus Gleditsia
- Gleditsia
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