''Gleditsia caspica'', the Caspian locust or Persian honeylocust, is a species of ''

Gleditsia ''Gleditsia'' (honey locust) is a genus of trees in the family (biology), family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native plant, native to the Americas and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, director of the Berlin ...

'' native to western

Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...

, in the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...

region of

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by ...

and northern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

, close to the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, described as the List of lakes by area, world's largest lake and usually referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, ...

.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . It is a medium-sized

deciduous In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed Leaf, leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, e.g., including only woody plants with secondary growth, only ...

growing to 12 m tall, with the trunk covered in numerous, 10–20 cm long branched spines. The

leaves A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, ...

are pinnate or bipinnate, up to 25 cm long, with 12–20 leaflets; bipinnate leaves have six to eight pinnae. The leaflets are up to 5 cm long and 2 cm broad. The

flower Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants ( angiosperms). Typically, they are structured in four circular levels, called whorls, around the end of a stalk. These whorls include: calyx, m ...

s are greenish, produced in

raceme A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate growth, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are ...

s up to 10 cm long. The

fruit In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (angiosperms) that is formed from the ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which angiosperms disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propaga ...

is a pod 20 cm long and 3 cm broad.Cirrusimage
''Gleditsia caspica''
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Gleditsia japonica ''Gleditsia japonica'', the Japanese locust, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...

of it by some botanists, ''Gleditsia horrida'' subsp. ''caspica'' (Desf.) J.Paclt.Paclt, J. (1982). Gleditsia caspia, Not a Distinct Species (Leguminosae). ''Taxon'' 31 (2): 336-33
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5. Nourmohammadi, K., Rahimi, D., Naghdi, R., & Kartoolinejad, D. (2016). Effects of physical and chemical treatments of seed dormancy breaking on seedling quality index (QI) of Caspian locust (Gleditsia caspica Desf.). Austrian Journal of Forest Science, 133(2), 157-171. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Davoud_Kartooli/publication/306065561_Effects_of_seed_dormancy_breaking_treatments_on_seedling_QI_of_Caspian_locust_Seite_157_Effects_of_physical_and_chemical_treatments_of_seed_dormancy_breaking_on_seedling_quality_index_QI_of_Caspian_lo/links/57ad919708ae42ba52b3b71f/Effects-of-seed-dormancy-breaking-treatments-on-seedling-QI-of-Caspian-locust-Seite-157-Effects-of-physical-and-chemical-treatments-of-seed-dormancy-breaking-on-seedling-quality-index-QI-of-Caspian-lo.pdf {{Taxonbar, from=Q164418 caspica Flora of Azerbaijan Trees of Western Asia Trees of Mediterranean climate Taxa named by René Louiche Desfontaines

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