Common Name:
Locust
About 20 species of deciduous shrubs and trees, branches often somewhat angular. Leaves alternate, compound (odd-pinnate), leaflets opposite, entire; stipules often present in the form of stout thorns. Flowers white to purple-pink, in dense pendulous clusters (racemes). Fruit a pod, linear, flat. Native to North America and Mexico.
Robinia: after Jean Robin, herbalist to Henry IV of France.
Pronunciation:
ro-BIN-e-a
Family:
Fabaceae