The alkaloid gleditschine is said to produce stupor and loss of reflex activity in a frog. Space between the seeds filled with sweet edible pulp. Moraine' and 'sunburst' locusts are nursery selections of the unarmed types. Distribution Native to the central United States, now naturalized east of the Appalachian Mountains from South Carolina to New England. Also introduced, established and possibly spreading, sometimes as a weed tree in India, New Zealand and South Africa.
Seedlings reach suitable size for outplanting in one year.
Clonal reproduction of select germplasm is often recommended. Harvesting of pods is rather difficult, especially in thorny cvs. The infection threads did not penetrate beyond the epidermal wall. Disk assay tests using aqueous root extracts showed the presence of antirhizobial substances that were suggestive of flavones in other tests. Nodulation was not inhibited or diminished on diverse species of other leguminous genera grown in association with honeylocust.