Robinia Twisty Baby Honeylocust
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Type: Tree
Family: Fabaceae
Zone: 4 to 8
Height: 8.00 to 10.00 feet
Spread: 12.00 to 15.00 feet
Bloom Time: Rarely flowers
Bloom Description: White (rarely flowers)
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Dry to medium
Maintenance: Medium
Flower: Showy
Other: Thorns
Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Clay Soil, Air Pollution
Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly called black locust, is medium sized, suckering, deciduous tree that typically grows to 30-50’ (less frequently to 80’) tall. Although originally native to the Allegheny Mountains, it has escaped gardens and naturalized over time to cover much of the United States and southern Canada plus parts of Europe, Asia and South America. At its best, it will grow as a broadly columnar single trunk tree with a narrow oblong crown. It also will grow in suckering thickets. It is noted for its attractive compound leaves and pendant racemes of pea-like flowers. Branches are usually armed with short paired spines (to 1.25” long). Pinnate dark blue-green leaves, with each leaf having up to 23 lance-shaped to ovate leaflets. Leaves turn uneventful yellow in fall. Fragrant wisteria-like white flowers in pendant racemes (to 8” long) bloom in late spring. Bees are attracted to the flowers. Flowers are followed by smooth, flat, purple-brown seed pods (to 4-5” long). This species is also commonly called common locust, yellow locust, white locust, green locust, pea flower locust and false acacia.
Genus name honors Jean Robin (1550-1629), of Paris, gardener to Henri IV and Louis XIII of France, who received new plants from Canada.
Specific epithet means false acacia.
TWISTY BABY is a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree which is perhaps most noted for its shrubby growth habit, zigzag branching (more pronounced on new growth) and curling of some of the mature leaflets. It can be expected to grow to 8-10' tall with a spread of 12-15' over 30 years. It is sold by nurseries in several different forms: (1) a multi-stemmed shrub, (2) a single trunk tree or (3) a top-grafted tree to a 6' standard. Trees feature a loose crown and fail to develop a strong central leader. Features pinnately compound, dark green leaves (leaflets to 7/8" long) which turn yellow in fall. This cultivar rarely produces the racemes of fragrant white flowers in May or resulting seed pods that are typical of the species. Miniature spines occur on some branches, but are smaller and fewer than on the species. This plant was patented in 1996 under the cultivar name of 'Lace Lady' (PP9,771), but is currently being sold by nurseries under the trademarked name of TWISTY BABY.
Genus name honors Jean Robin (1550-1629), of Paris, gardener to Henri IV and Louis XIII of France, who received new plants from Canada.
Specific epithet means false acacia.
TWISTY BABY is a deciduous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree which is perhaps most noted for its shrubby growth habit, zigzag branching (more pronounced on new growth) and curling of some of the mature leaflets. It can be expected to grow to 8-10' tall with a spread of 12-15' over 30 years. It is sold by nurseries in several different forms: (1) a multi-stemmed shrub, (2) a single trunk tree or (3) a top-grafted tree to a 6' standard. Trees feature a loose crown and fail to develop a strong central leader. Features pinnately compound, dark green leaves (leaflets to 7/8" long) which turn yellow in fall. This cultivar rarely produces the racemes of fragrant white flowers in May or resulting seed pods that are typical of the species. Miniature spines occur on some branches, but are smaller and fewer than on the species. This plant was patented in 1996 under the cultivar name of 'Lace Lady' (PP9,771), but is currently being sold by nurseries under the trademarked name of TWISTY BABY.
