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Shademaster Honey Locust
Because it has proven very hardy and tolerant of drought and salinity, it is widely planted for windbreaks and soil erosion control. The leaves are fine textured, medium green in color and seldom need raking because of their fine texture. Excellent street and lawn tree bcause it is thornless and seedless. The Shademaster Honey Locust tree, Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, 'Shademaster'Honeylocust, may also be called sweet-locust or thorny-locust. The dark green foliage turns yellow for great fall color. It is a fast growing tree with good trunk. It has a more or less rectangular outline formed by the upright ascending branches which then spread horizontally. This variety has been planted to replace the elm in many urban areas. This deciduous tree is a moderately fast growing tree commonly found on moist bottom lands or limestone soils. ... get more information
Swamp Chestnut Oak The acorns are sweet and serve as food to wildlife. One of the important timber trees of the South, it grows on moist and wet loamy soils of bottom lands, along streams and borders of swamps. The high quality wood is used in all kinds of construction and for implements. Swamp chestnut oak trees are deciduous and have leaves that vary from four to eight inches in length, are downy beneath and turn a rich crimson in the fall. Good seed crops occur at intervals of 3-5 years with poor to fair production in between. Swamp Chestnut Oak strongly prefers soils that are moist, permanently moist, or permanently wet, and tolerates standing water (as in periodically inundated floodplains) for several weeks at a time. A good shade tree. Swamp chestnut oak trees are well-formed and become quite large (80 feet tall) with a narrow crown. The Swamp Chestnut Oak tree, Quercus michauxii, is known also as a basket oak for the baskets made from its wood, and cow oak because cows eat the acorns. |
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