The star-crossed honeylocust. (In Profile).

American Forests | March 22, 2003| | Copyright

The story of the native honeylocust's (Gleditsia spp.) rise in America has more twists than a John Grisham novel. Also called the sweet locust, thorn tree, three-thorned acacia, and honey shucks, the tree seemed destined to be an agricultural star in the 1920s when USDA researchers determined that its seed pods offered a valuable option for cattle and pig fodder.

At that time, one acre of honeylocust trees could produce almost twice the volume in fodder of one acre of corn or oats. It also contained two to three times the sugar content of sugar cane or sugar ...

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