Not all plant spikes are thorns ... noticed several especially long thorns protruding from aging honey locust trees along streets in New Haven, Conn., home to Yale's campus.

A tolerant, thorn-clad tree native to the central United States, honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is a somewhat fast-growing tree often found on limestone soils or moist bottomlands. It ranges ...

Susan White looks up as she walks through the snow beneath a honey locust tree in Bannister Park. “Look at some of those big ones,” White enthuses looking up at the long, pointy spikes.

This week, we introduce the honey locust or Gleditsia triacanthos. This tree, also called “thorn-tree,” has multi-pronged thorns of two inches or more in length, which occur on the trunk as well as on ...

Q: This past spring, I had a honey locust tree cut down and the trunk ground up, hoping to grow grass in the space. However, during this hot, humid summer, hundreds of little trees have sprouted ...

Imani Green Health Advocates program leader Ajiah Gilbert, left, records data from a honey locust tree with Maybelline Mariscal, 21, during a tree health monitoring training outing in McKinley Park.