 | | 31/05/2021 16:16
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Locusts & Honey
There's an interesting little tree around here whose wicked thorns were the bane of my barefooted childhood. It is called a Locust tree. And like the ancient biblical stories in which Charleton Heston rained misery and giant grasshoppers down on Yule Brenner, these trees were a plague upon our farm and my toes. Although many people consider this a native plant, it is in fact a colonizer. The black locust tree first made its way across Europe, and later America, thanks to the work of a French royal gardener named John (some texts say Jean) Robin who brought the tree to Europe in the 1600s. It is today one of the most widespread feral trees in the world. ...
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