Thread: Black Locust for long bows

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

Here is a link:https://www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/d...lacklocust.asp
The OP states Black Locust and looking at the form of the tree they look like Black Locust. A lot of tree legumes are poisonous in part or whole, just think of our own native Kowhai

A lot of tree legumes are also hallucinogenic. I imported some seeds of Anadenanthera colubrina a few years back to trial it as a timber tree. The seeds were inspected by MPI on arrival in the country, and released to me. Which I was very pleased about as a bit later I discovered that the seeds can be used as a LSD substitute, and are a class A drug in NZ! It's totally nuts, you can legally import the seeds with the intention of sowing them, but if you import them for any other reason you can end up going to jail. Sadly the trees did not survive.