Re: Trees/ Honey locust

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• Subject: Re: [SG] Trees/ Honey locust
• From: G*
• Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 14:28:24 -0400
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Hello Diann,
    Not all Locust trees have thorns over the trunks and limbs.
    As to why they developed thorns... can't answer that one... my ex-wife had
them and I never understood what purpose they served.
    Sorry...couldn't resist... just too darn easy.
    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Diann Barbee Thoma <diannthoma@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: [SG] Trees


> I know some honey locusts get killer (literally) clumps of thorns all up
> their sides.  Do all of them?  I also wonder, evolutionarily speaking, why
> these thorns developed.  (We suspect they didn't like squirrels, but of
> course that's our own prejudice....)
>
> Diann

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