The difference between honey locust and honey locust

1. Differences between branches and trunks

Gleditsia sinensis is a deciduous tree or small tree, about 30 meters tall, with branches and trunks ranging from gray to dark brown. The mountain soapberry is shorter than the former, reaching a maximum height of 25 meters, and the color of its branches changes from purple-brown to gray-green.

2. Difference of blades

The leaves of the soapberry are pinnately compound leaves, with papery leaflets that are ovate-lanceolate to oblong. The leaves of Gleditsia sinensis are pinnately compound once or twice, with leaflets that are papery to thick papery and ovate-oblong in shape.

3. The difference between flowers

The flowers of honey locust are yellow-white in color, borne in terminal or axillary racemes, with four oblong petals. The flowers of the honey locust tree are yellow-green in color, have spike-shaped inflorescences, and have oval petals.