[AT] Honey Locust

[Stephen Offiler]

When I'm tackling my autumn olive, I am dressed and mentally prepared for
the multiflora rose thorns that I will also encounter - they tend to grow
together in my area.  I barely notice the AO thorns.  There's a picture of
an AO thorn in the link below.  They are somewhat blunt and not terribly
numerous.  Again, that's my experience after more than a decade eradicating
clumps of AO and MFR numbering many dozen, probably hundreds.  But I would
not be surprised to learn of subspecies elsewhere with somewhat different
characteristics.

SO

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 9:00 AM Mark Greer <magreer67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another telltale characteristic of Autumn Olive is the underside of the
> leaves. They are white/silver and show very well in a breeze. If you get
> too close, the thorns will have you backing up quickly. AO is good for
> quickly re-establishing vegetation on poor soils (strip-mined and the like)
> but once established, it is nearly impossible to get rid of.
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 8:43 AM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The autumn olive we have here in the northeast does not have "rose-like
>> thorns" that will "tear you to shreds".  Thorns, yes, but not like that.
>>
>> https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/profile/autumn-olive
>>
>> SO
>>
>>
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