The leaves, bark, and wood are poisonous to people and livestock.
Trees that have spiny seed pods include the honey locust, sweetgum, and black locust.
Yes. Honey locust trees grow long, twisted pods. The pods turn a deep brown in fall and are full of oval, brown seeds. The pulp inside the pods is edible, unlike the black locust, which is TOXIC.
Locust tree thorns are not poisonous but like any cut or stab wound, they could leave you open to an infection. The poisonous parts of black locust tree are the leaves, seed pods, inner bark and young shoots.
How to prevent pods on a locust tree
Locust fruits are pods that grow on honey locust trees. The pulp inside the pods are edible for both humans and animals.
Robinia pseudo-acacia or commonly called Black Locust
Berries from the locust tree may be the sweet edible pods of the honey locust trees. Another type of locust tree is the black locust tree which is highly toxic but good for making honey.
No. The seed pods, the insides, and the seeds are toxic. The flower, petals only, when they are in bloom are not toxic and very delicious. The only locust of which you can eat the fruit is Honey Locust.
You can identify a black locust tree by looking for its distinctive compound leaves with small leaflets, clusters of fragrant white flowers in the spring, and long, brown seed pods that hang from the branches. The bark of a black locust tree is deeply furrowed and dark gray in color.
Only the seed pods
No, they are not venomous.
Although the thorns of black locust are generally short in length but contain toxic compounds that can be harmful for children and pets if ingested. The syn toms of poisoning are vomiting, diarrhea, weak pulse.