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Black Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia · Fabaceae · 아까시나무

How to spot it

Pinnately compound leaves, drooping clusters of fragrant white flowers, and paired thorns beside the leaf scars.

Look

Leaves
Alternate pinnately compound leaves with lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaflets.
Flowers
Strongly fragrant white pea-like flowers hang in drooping racemes.
Fruit
Smooth, flat purplish-brown pods hold reddish-brown kidney-shaped seeds; pods may persist into winter.
Bark
Brown to gray bark is deeply furrowed.

Where it grows

In Korea
Planted
Native to
Native range is recorded as the eastern and central United States, including the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.
Ecology
It fixes nitrogen and grows even in poor soil. In North America the flowers attract bees and it is a larval food plant for several butterflies.

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