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Uncommon in West Virginia, thorny honey locust trees may have been brought to the state by mastodons.

Mastodons inhabited north and central America until the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago. (Image print by Heinrich Harder, 1858-1935)

Thorny locust in West Virginia

Thorns on Honey Locust Tree

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