> The scientific opinion seems to be that honey locusts
>evolved to use deer and other large herbivores of the North American
>past to distribute their seeds.
There is a large honeylocust in the giraffe enclosure at the Portland
Zoo; the tree looks very much at home there. Deer? My wager is that it
was extinct elements of the N. Am. megafauna that co-evolved with
honeylocust. Those incredible spines! Like an African Acacia.
-Rick
Re: [nafex] Re: honeylocust pods,
rick valley, 01/08/2001