Yes..it is honey locust...we have a lot of locust around here..black and honey..it is the thornless variety..and yes it was a yard tree...it looks odd fer sure ive never come across any like this before..most is straight grained just like BL
I just doesn't look right on the ends of the rounds, but pics can be deceiving. Did you get it all split? Was it all that stringy?
My parents have an ornamental variety of the honey locust in their yard. It's called a "sunburst" locust and doesn't have the thorns or the seed pods, and is sterile. I have a "shoot" from that tree in my yard that my Mom dug up from theirs. It was attached to one of the roots to theirs about 25 feet from the trunk. My tree is about 12 years old now and about 8-9 inches in diameter. It has no thorns; but the last 4 years has these huge seed pods (8-12") that cover the tree. Don't know if the seeds are fertile or not.
How did you go about transplanting it? I have a BL tree that "sprouted" this year, in a clearing where I planted some other trees. It grew 6' in a year! I've been thinking about transplanting it and making it a shade tree in the yard, but it's probably a root sprout from a tree about 15' or so away.
Bark looks just fine for honey locust have around 8 cords of it here looks just like it. Black locust develops very deep furrows in the bark and the bark/cambrium layer is quite thick as compared to honey. What is shown is not Red Oak bark that I have ever seen. When first split honey is quite pink bordering on reddish ,black is very yellow. Have a cord or so of black here also. There is also a distinctive difference between the scent of oaks Honey and Black Lucust.
Honey locust and black locust are not related at all, believe it or not! Gleditsia triacanthos – Honey Locust Robina pseudoacacia - Black Locust
Mom dug it out when it was about 18-24" tall with a trunk about the size of your finger. It had enough "root" on it so Mom just cut as close to the parent tree as possible. As I said prior, it's 8-9" in diameter and probably 25' feet tall, maybe more. If you do transplant it, bury it no deeper than it is now in the ground, and brace it with a few posts and twine. They grow fast..............or at least this one I have did.
Yea thats where i live...lots of locust, hack,mullberry,cherry etc...oh yea and chitloads of maple..lol
