Japanese honey locust

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Gleditsia japonica Miq.

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

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Subfamily Caesalpinioideae

Saikachi (サイカチ), Japanese honey locust
Kawarafuji (カワラフジ)

Lifeform: deciduous tree
Distribution: endemic to Japan (south to central Honshu)
Habitat: mountains, riversides, etc.

Spine: formed from branch or stem (茎針)

Varieties

var. koraiensis Nakai (チョウセンサイカチ)

f. inarmata Nakai (トゲナシチョウセンサイカチ)

var. stenocarpa (Nakai) Nakai (ヒメサイカチ)

f. inermis Mayr (トゲナシサイカチ)

Gleditsia L.

Introduced for gardening

G. rolfei S. Vidal (タイワンサイカチ)
G. sinensis Lam. (シナサイカチ/トウサイカチ)
G. triacanthos L. (アメリカサイカチ

Gleditsia japonica transplanted in Hokkaido

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[3] a bark (樹皮). [1-4] at the arboretum (樹木園) of Hokkaido Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, in Hitsujigaoka, Sapporo, on July 9 2013.