| Description | A graceful rounded, thornless Honeylocust. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | racemes, fragrant and loaded with nectar for pollinating insects. |
| Fruit | produces few if any, large flat, chocolate colored, twisted bean-like seedpod |
| Leaves | alternate, pinnately or bipinnate compound, bright green in the summer and yellow in the fall, one of the earliest trees to drop its leaves |
| Stems | twigs are zigzagged, thornless |
| Dimensions | 30-35(50) feet tall by a spread of 35 feet, symmetrical rounded crown |
| Native Site | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
| Cultivar Origin | Cole Nursery, Pennsylvania USA, 1956 |
| Author's Notes | I planted two of these over 25 years ago (as of 2015) and they are still going strong. |
| Notes & Reference | #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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