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Black locust is a shade-intolerant species [17] and therefore is typical of young woodlands and disturbed areas where sunlight is plentiful and the soil is dry. In this sense, black locust can be considered a weed tree. It also spreads by underground shoots or suckers, which contributes to the weedy character of this species. [9]
Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, tribe Robinieae, native to North America.Commonly known as locusts, [2] they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing 4–25 metres (13–82 ft) tall.
The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), also known as the thorny locust or thorny honeylocust, is a deciduous tree in the family Fabaceae, native to central North America where it is mostly found in the moist soil of river valleys. [4] Honey locust trees are highly adaptable to different environments, and the species has been introduced ...
Robinia hispida, known as the bristly locust, [3] rose-acacia, or moss locust, is a shrub in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States , [ 4 ] and it is present in other areas, including other regions of North America, as an introduced species .
"Locust" comes from the Latin locusta, meaning both "locust" (the insect) and "lobster".By analogy with a Levantine use of the Greek word for the insect, akris, for the pods of the carob tree, which supposedly resembled it, the pod-bearing North American tree started to be called "locust" in the 1630s.
Jacaranda trees usually bloom by June, but they may flower at any time of year depending on conditions such as light, heat, rain or pruning. Read more: The greatest trees of Los Angeles
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Robinia neomexicana is native to the Southwestern United States (southeastern California and southwestern Utah, Virgin River region, [4] east through Arizona and New Mexico, the Rio Grande valley, to far west Texas) and adjoining northern Mexico; from central New Mexico the range extends north into Colorado, mostly the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains.