Native honey locusts have a very limited range in Canada. They usually grow in well-protected, damp areas. This almost field-like setting in which they exist at Point Pelee is the only known example in Canada. In contrast to these newly developing areas, the most mature parts of the forest are like a jungle. In the summer, light can hardly penetrate the dense foliage.
Vines add to the jungle likeness.
In search of sunlight, wild grape, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy vines hang rope-like from the tops of some of the tallest trees. Much of this forest has a distinctly southern flavour. The most common tree here is the hackberry. Finding a forest of them in Canada is really surprising, but the hackberry is not the only southern tree to be found in Point Pelee's forest. Others include black walnut, chinquapin oak, swamp white oak, tuliptree, red mulberry, blue ash, and sassafras.