Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee by Ronald L. Jones

Author:Ronald L. Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2013-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Gleditsia L. Family Fabaceae. (for John Gottlieb Gleditsch, 1714–1786, of the Berlin Botanic Garden). Tree to 30 m tall, usually armed with branched thorns on trunk and twigs, the bark with long plates in mature specimens; twigs zigzag, shiny, swollen at nodes, with branched thorns; terminal buds absent; buds small, superposed and sunken in a hairy pit, and concealed by leaf scar and bark; leaf scars alternate, raised, shield- to U-shaped, with bundle scars in 3 groups; stipular scars absent; fruit a flat legume. The pulp of the pods is very sweet and edible, especially before complete ripening (caution—do not mistake for the toxic pods of Kentucky coffeetree, Gymnocladus dioicus).

1. Legumes < 5 cm long, seeds 1–3; thorns usually < 15 cm long; remnant leaflets glabrous or nearly so ______________________________________________________________________________ G. aquatica.

1. Legumes > 5 cm long, (to 50 cm) long, seeds 4 or more; thorns often > 15 cm long; remnant leaflets pubescent ___________________________________________________________________ G. triacanthos.

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