#gleditsia

[swamp-boggler]

Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos).

[theoutofworld-blog]

[thebotanicalarcade]

n256_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Tabulae phytographicae, Turici,Impensis J.H. Fuessli,1795-1804. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58012683

[spatheandspadix]

Honey Locust hours

[bethanythebogwitch]

Juvenile honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) I found at work. It's starting to grow spines. Eventually those can get 4 or 5 inches long.

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

I love honey locusts so much. Just look at this guy. 10/10

[mailordertrees]

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[swamp-boggler]

Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos).

Dover Village Park, OH.

The honeylocust is a neat native North American tree that is characterized by its huge spikes and doubly pinnately compound leaves.

When young, the spikes are a fiery red-orange.

The spikes are likely a vestigial feature that protected the tree from browsing during the time of megafauna, but no longer have any practical use besides looking badass.

[environmentalharmony]

Plant Study: Honey Locust

Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos. Hailing from the Fabaceae family, the peas, Honey Locust is a medium-large deciduous tree native to central North America. It can become very invasive outside its native area and is banned in some areas, so do your research before you plant this beautiful, edible, medicinal tree. Honey Locust is an aggressive, fast-growing, short-lived tree that establishes…

[chinesehanfu]

[China History]How were “luxury toiletries” made and created in ancient China 1,250 years ago?［Eng Sub］

This episode is set in the second year of the Tang Dynasty Tianbao era (743 AD), during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. It tells the story of a maidservant of the emperor's beloved concubine, Mei Fei 梅妃 (also known as Jiang Caiping/江采萍), who created the "Dendrobium Pearl Bath Bean/石斛珍珠澡豆" that Mei Fei/梅妃 had developed. According to the "Beiji Qianjin Yaofang《备急千金要方》" (Essential Formulas Worth a Thousand in Gold for Emergencies) by Tang-dynasty physician Sun Simiao:

洗面药：猪胰（五具切细）、毕豆面（一升）、皂角（三挺）、栝蒌实、葳蕤、白茯苓、土瓜根（各五两）；上七味捣筛，将猪胰拌和，更捣令匀，每但取洗手面，白日白净如素。

【Translation】：

"Facial wash medicine: pig pancreas (cut into fine pieces), beanstalk powder (one sheng/升), Gleditsia sinensis Lam(three pieces), Trichosanthes real, flourishing, white Poria cocos, and five taels each of soil melon roots; mix the seven ingredients, grind and sift, then mix with the pig pancreas, and grind together. Use the resulting powder for washing hands and face, making them as white and smooth as porcelain during the day"

(Note: The video also incorporates a segment on the tribute pearls from Hepu, filmed with the process of "opening oysters and harvesting pearls," though the historical accuracy of the video may have some artistic liberties, so viewers should be mindful of this).

The recipe for the "Dendrobium Pearl Bath Bean/石斛珍珠澡豆" was highly sought after by the imperial concubines and princesses of the time, who affectionately referred to Mei Fei as "Hu Zhu Fu Ren/斛珠夫人" (Lady of Pearls). Not only was she skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, but Mei Fei was also a talented dancer. She was one of the eight great female talents in the Tang Dynasty, having choreographed the famous Tang court dance "Jinghong Dance/惊鸿舞" (Dance of the Scared Swan).

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[fouryearsofshades]

hi! do you have any information on how hanfu were traditionally washed and stored? thank you :)

First, sorry that it has been so long. Then, sorry that it is a short answer. Hope it is alright.

Expensive clothes were not washed. In the old days they used a lot of plant dyes and those things discoloured when they came in contact with water. Modern plant dyes are slightly better due to the fixative used in dying but the colour still faded with every wash. Hence, people in the old days used to wear layers to avoid dirtied their fancy clothes with sweat.

Clothes can be scented with something called 熏笼/Xūnlóng (lit. "smoke cage").

It is usually made from bamboo, but rich people could have them made from porcelain, like this one from the Three Kingdoms period.

A book on incense from the Song dynasty, 洪氏香谱/Hóng shì xiāngpǔ (Hong's Book of Fragrance), recorded the method of scenting clothes: first placed a bowl of hot water to moisturize the clothes, then smoke the clothes with incense.

Sometimes clothes could be washed separately.

护领/Hùlǐng (lit. "Collar protector". They are usually white in colour) were often detachable so people only needed to wash that instead of the whole clothes. It could also be made from paper.

Those type of embroidered/painted collars from Song dynasty were attached separately, so it was possible that they were removed while the body of the clothes were washed separately.

People usually washed clothes in water with the aid of a 捣衣杵/dǎoyī chǔ or 洗衣杵/xǐyī chǔ 搓衣板/cuō yī bǎn wash stick and/or a washboard.

The earliest type of of soap recorded being used was 草木灰/cǎomù huī (wood ash). Other plant based soaps were also used, such as 皂荚/zàojiá (Gleditsia sinensis, black locust), 无患子/wúhuànzi (Sapindus saponaria, soapberries), 茶箍/chágū（the dregs from pressing oil from camellia seeds plus hay) etc.

There were also records of potassium soap. Those soaps however were usually in liquid form and often used in fabric manufacture [我国古代的洗涤剂].

猪胰子/Zhū yízi Pig pancreas was also used. 白国斌/Bái Guóbīn (in 2021) wrote how they made pig pancreas soap when he was young - pasted the pig pancreas, then dried and powdered it. Later mix with alkaline water and made into ball to air dry.

澡豆/Zǎodòu was made from the combination of powdered pig pancreas, bean powder and other herbs. There are many recipes, such as a recipe by 孙思邈/Sūn Sīmiǎo from Tang dynasty includes 16 materials. They were also known as 胰子/Yízi.

Aromatic herbs and other xiang (fragrant things) could also be added into the water in the end to add pleasant fragrance to the clothes, such as a book in Ming dynasty《多能鄙事���/Duō néng bǐ shì ("I can do a lot of humble things") by 刘基/Liú jī recorded: Tree Peony Bark 31.25g and Spikenard 3.125g, powdered.

[vandaliatraveler]

Early October on Dunkard Creek at Mason-Dixon Historical Park. Even with the first frost just around the corner, life abounds along the stream, including: sulphur shelf fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus), more commonly known as chicken-of-the-woods; fall phlox (Phlox paniculata); and the flamboyantly-beautiful New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae). The park is also at the eastern-most range of the thorny-trunked honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), whose common name derives from the sweet taste of its edible fruit pods.

[spatheandspadix]

Made myself some honey locust earrings

[pureamericanism]

The honey locust tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) is, along with the periodic cicada, to me one of the great symbols of American weirdness.

When one contemplates the great temperate, deciduous forests of eastern America, at first glance it is easy to see in them a transatlantic continuation of the forests of old Europe. The "oak and ash and [haw]thorn" of Merrie England's countryside are all present, as are beech and maples and other plants that would have been familiar to the English, Dutch, and French who first settled this land. There are certainly forests in the eastern states where, if you squint, you can almost see a troupe of fairy tale knights and ladies riding on brightly caparisoned horses coming round a corner of the trail.

But, upon closer inspection of these forests, we find...the honey locust. A canopy tree with an eccentric growth habit, whose trunk is armored with what can only be called spikes that are sometimes well over three inches long, that produces in fall weird foot long beans full of a semi-sweet manna, and whose wood burns as hot as a coal fire, the only medieval text it would fit neatly into would be the wild travel tales of John Mandeville. And so, for me, it is a symbol of all that is distinctively American, distinctly of thr New World

There's other trees that have a similar effect - the pawpaw with its lumpy, banana-custard fruits, its Goth dried blood flowers, and its giant leaves that smell of diesel fuel; or the tulip-poplar, which hides flowers as bright as the morning sun on top of a trunk a hundred feet tall; or the bald cypress, a conifer that loses its needles every winter and that lives longer than whole civilizations; but the honey locust, common even on suburban streets and city parks, is one of the most frequently encountered and obviously weird of them, and so it's the one I always gravitate towards as a symbol.

[bethanythebogwitch]

This is honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) a tree native to my area. It is covered is giant, very sharp thorns that evolved to keep giant ground sloths from eating them. There is a thornless variant that often gets used as a decorative plant, but I like the pointy version more