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Caspian Locust

Gleditsia caspica

Also called Persian Honeylocust

Caspian Locust
Photo: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Transcaucasus to N. Iran
Climate
temperate

About

Gleditsia caspica, the Caspian locust or Persian honeylocust, is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia, in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran, close to the Caspian Sea.

It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 12 m tall, with the trunk covered in numerous, 10–20 cm long branched spines. The leaves are pinnate or bipinnate, up to 25 cm long, with 12–20 leaflets; bipinnate leaves have six to eight pinnae. The leaflets are up to 5 cm long and 2 cm broad. The flowers are greenish, produced in racemes up to 10 cm long. The fruit is a pod 20 cm long and 3 cm broad.

Other Gleditsia plants

Gleditsia amorphoides · Water locust · Gleditsia assamica · Gleditsia japonica · Gleditsia rolfei · Chinese Honey Locust · Honey locust · Locust

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gleditsia caspica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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