Back in my June 21<\/a> post, I reminisced about the black locust trees of the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. I have some news in that direction.<\/p>\n On August 3, returning from Courtenay to Campbell River, I was convinced we passed a few black locust trees. However, I didn’t ask my wife to stop the car so I could check one close up. I decided to wait, anticipating that later in the summer another opportunity would arise.<\/p>\n Yesterday, down in Nanaimo, I once again, from a distance, recognized the lacy foliage of a black locust. Passing close by, I saw the deeply furrowed bark; the tree was possibly 80 ft tall, its crown perhaps 50 ft across.<\/p>\n We pulled into our nearby destination. After my family went inside, I walked back towards the suspected black locust to make a close-up inspection. I never reached it; there was one much closer, in a better situation for examination. Brown pods littered the grass around it.<\/p>\n So we have a positive ID of black locust in Nanaimo:)<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Brockman, Frank, Rebecca Merrilees and Herbert Zim. Trees of North America<\/u>.
New York: Golden Press, 1968.<\/p>\n