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BowEd:
I was out taking pictures of a black cherry bow against black cherry trees that I tillered down to a more comfortable draw weight for myself and along the way I took a picture of just how nasty these honey locust can get.Clusters around the trunk amoondo.Some of the thorns are a foot long.Most are 6" long.
If a person gets one of the spores from one of these thorns under their skin it festers very quickly swelling up.Nasty stuff.
A bow can be made from it.Pretty salmon colored heartwood with thicker sapwood than black locust.About 25% wider than a black locust.

PaulN/KS:
Yep, nasty things. The wife had a flat last week that turned out to be a locust thorn.
I was out walking an old fenceline about 15 years ago and got tangled up in some old wire and fell forward. Drove a thorn into my left hand and almost out the top. Pulled it out,(guy I was with almost threw up... ::)) and I drove to the emergency room. Hand was swelled up twice normal in the 1/2 hour, or so, that it took to get to town.

BowEd:
You ai'nt a kiddin Paul.I got one into my knee cap once from keeling onto the ground.Swelled up very quickly with a fair amount of pain to boot.
I had one go through a gum boot into my foot once too.
Through your hand......yikes that had to hurt.Did they give you antibiotics?If so what was it?Maybe chephalexin?

Hawkdancer:
Ok, Honey Locust has nasty thorns, Black locust doesn't have thorns, or much smaller thorns?  I didn't take Dendrology in college, and haven't been in the Midwest forests very much!  That is a nasty looking tree, Ed!
Hawkdancer

osage outlaw:
Ed. Those are nasty trees for sure.  We have a few on our place.  I read somewhere that they only have thorns for about 15' up the tree.  It was a defense for prehistoric animals that used to feed on them.  The animals are long extinct but I guess the trees don't know that.

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