Mystree ornamental? Is this honey locust?

Ooohh, you just made my stomach flip a bit with the thorn in the tennis shoe part....

 

There seems to be a wide variety of 'thorniness' in the Honey Locusts in my area with some looking like porcupines and some with none at all. Other than the thorns they really can be a nice tree. Good firewood once it dries out, usually easy to split in the straight sections and the pods, while annoying in a yard, are good wildlife food. Hawthornes almost always have thorns but smaller than HL. They also are beneficial to the wildlife but don't contribute much as firewood.

 

What about the berries on the ground? Do your thorny apples produce any type of fruit?

 

Looks like Pyracantha Brad. I'll try and get pics of mine.

 

Whew...i dont know what that is...but how contagious is it?? And will it cause me to need more toilet paper?

 

Thanks Steve. Whatever it is and if i had a chance to cut it for firewood, id pass with all the thorns!

 

Thats funny! My laugh for the day!

 

Changed my mind Brad. Not pyracantha. Checked mine and although it has thorns the berries are to small. Think I'm gonna go with some type of Hawthorn. More investigating as I have a couple growing across the street.

 

The ones I've carved up had no thorns...might have left them be if they had...