There are several kinds of trees in the Skiatook area that have thorns. This note describes four of them. Black locust, Callery pear, chittamwood and Osage orange. The thorns of black locust are ...

Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a medium-sized tree with a single small leaf and thorns along the twigs and smaller branches. The bark of the locust tree is deeply furrowed with a grayish ...

This tree has compound leaves that are eight to 10 inches long, made up of seven to 17 small rounded leaflets arranged alternately on the twigs. The black locust has thorns on the twig where the buds ...

The scent I’m getting isn’t from my rhododendrons or irises; it’s from the branch-heavy blooms of the black locust trees that grow ... tempered by its bloody thorns. I eventually had the ...