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Ever run across one and needed a blood transfusion after.

You mean Honey Locust ??

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Or mesquite.

My father in law set out a “strawberry tree” probably 50 years ago and it has thorns on it about 3” long. The tree is huge now and has fruit on it in the fall that looks like strawberry’s but you can eat them. Don’t know if birds eat them but they carry them off and a new tree sprouts wherever a seed is dropped. All of those new trees have bigs thorns too.
I hate that tree but my wife won’t let me cut it. Durn thorns are tough and long enough to go through a tractor tire.

Hawthorns are a bitch too. Anyone that planted those must be nuts

We have black locust and yellow locust.
I had a deer lease that had a HUGE black locust on it.
We found one thorn on it eleven inches long!
Yeah, mesquite thorns are pretty vicious, but try an agarita!
Prickly ash (tickle tongue) trees are pretty impressive too.

There are any number of them that will qualify. We have lots of Russian olives here. Black locust and Hawthorne have already been mentioned. Pyracantha will tear you a new one but it's very pretty and great cover for birds in the winter.
I planted some green locusts that came up from seed. One of them was a genetic throwback and was covered with vicious 3-4" thorns. It was a bear to just get close enough to cut through the stump with a saw.

I like burning the thorns off of locusts in the winter

Toothache trees are a pain too. They’re always on fence lines where you’re tryin to make a fence repair

Devils walking stick 😬

In east Texas we have honey locusts, tickle tongue and those native citrus trees that have thorns like a mofo. Had a wait a bit tree catch my earlobe in Botswana and spin me around before it ripped out. Those things will earn your respect in a hurry.

We have the devils walking stick all over up here on the ridge. I uproot the bàstards whenever I see one! Fortunately it's an easy take because the root structure is shallow and weak.

Devils Walking Stick will out poke a Hercule’s Club (toothache tree) every time. Huisache is another nasty one here. But I’ll take just about any thorny tree or shrub over the nettles. I hate nettles.

Black Palm in Panama sucks on the land nav course at Sherman. Jungle floor is basically a layer of leaves over wet clay like mud. Going up or downhill you can slip pretty easy.
Take your leather gloves off the d ring cause your 1st reaction when ya slip and slide is to grab a tree or bush, and then Murphy hits ya and it's a Black Palm of course.
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Can pretty well avoid honey locust around here if ya choose to do so. The trunk line of em are fairly clear, it's the low branches that suck walking in a place in the dark if your not really aware of the area down pat.
Deer feed on the pods, sitting a distance away from the fringes of em is pretty good hunting at times but it is a short preference food wise for em versus a good acorn drop.
Kinda like persimmons a short time food source they hit when they taste right to them.
I have seen does and small bucks around honey locust and good buck sign scrapes and rubs. But never a good sized 3.5 yr old or better one around honey locust.
Few areas I hunt with honey locust when other areas are not open. Mostly mixed hardwood flats along creek and stream systems.

Rather hunt transition areas around big pines and oak ridges.

This is the tree

Looks like a honey locust tree. Bad news.

Cut out a overhanging limb which landed on my head holy fugk did it hurt

Wickedness describes that tree.


Anyone every climb a Monkey Tree?





No thanks!

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Here in SE AZ we have an endless sea of white thorn acacia, catclaw and mesquite

Lucky here.