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Gleditsia triacanthos
Thorny trees that grow about 40 ft. tall.
Nope it's no in his head it's beside it. We were trying to show how big it was.
Well we thought it was poisonous because when my sister stepped on a thorn, the wound turned blue and hurt really bad.
Some think these huge thorns evolved to protect the tree from a big browser--mastodons. Mastodons no longer exist, of course, but I think of these thorns as a sign of those big browsers just as surely as seeing tracks pressed into the ground. And I think, that is very cool!
Spotted on Feb 4, 2012
Submitted on Feb 4, 2012
