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  • From: Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Anyone eat honeylocust pods?
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 03:22:58 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

The native Americans ate honeylocust pods (Gleditsia triacanthos) [note: NOT black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia]; agriculturists use it to feed livestock.

There are cultivars which are higher in sugar - i.e. 'Ashworth'.  The southern strains seem to be higher in sugar whereas the northern, of course, more hardy.

Anyone here eat them?  I would, since they are - although have never tried them yet; but I eat things which are terrible.. wild grapes (the small ones), blackhaw viburnum, etc.

Thanks,
Steve
New Jersey; USDA zone 6b/7a




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