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Nasty honey locust

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WhistlingBadger:
There are a lot of honey locust trees in the town I grew up in up in northern Wyoming.  They don't have thorns.  There must be a thorn-free cultivar, I guess.  They leave bean pods everywhere, and sprout like crazy.  I never thought to eat the pods.

BowEd:
I've read where back during the civil war thorns were even used as needles for patients.
There's about as many different types of locust cultivated out of greenhouses for landscape planting sunburst etc. as there is types of elm.
The thorn trees I'll call them here are native far as I know.It's a yearly chore suppressing them.They injure cattles' feet around here causing a vet bill.Some osage thorns do that to cattles' feet too.

Pappy:
Yep nasty tree for sure, I have several on my place, I have tried to kill or cut all the ones close to the fields to keep them out of my tractor tires. I have made a couple of bows from them, like you said , just a little wider and longer, but not to bad bow wood. :)
 Pappy

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