Black Locust
- Botanical Name
- Robinia pseudoacacia
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 30 to 50 feet
- Width
- 20 to 35 feet
- Flowers
- Spring: white, pendulous, sweetly fragrant
- Fruit
- Flat pod
- Fall Color
- Yellow-green
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, alkaline
- Planting & Care
- Tolerates intermittent flooding and drought
- Salt tolerant
- Transplants easily
- Prune in late summer to avoid bleeding
- Problems
- Locust borer, canker, insects, invasive nature
- Varieties
- Bessoniana - thornless, 30 by 20 feet
- Tortuosa - 10 feet, twisted branches and stems, few flowers
- Purple Robe - rose-pink flowers, 40 feet
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