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Honey locust
📍 The Armfield Science Center and Mullen Hall, 6001 Grove Ave, Richmond, VA 23226, USA
🗓 Season: September · October · November
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Long, flat, brown seed pods (up to 40 cm). Ripe when fully dark brown and slightly leathery. The sweet pulp between the seeds is edible raw — tastes like a mild molasses-honey. Seeds require cooking. Avoid pods from thornless cultivars (often bitter). Distinguished from black locust: honey locust pods are long and flat; black locust pods are short and thin.
Seed pods from this tree have a sticky goo inside that is edible (don't eat the seeds or pods). This tree drops several dozens in the fall and is on city sidewalk/street side property.
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