Inside Sprout: Disgust (Black Locust)

Completely Arbortrary · Mar 6, 2025 · 50m

Welcome to Inside Sprout, a 5 part mini-series on trees that best embody and illicit our most basic human emotions. Today we start with disgust and the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia). This tree is almost universally despised for its invasiveness, but has found a very important and loving niche for itself in the woodworking community.

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