Is a honey locust common in central Indiana?
Planted heavily along central-Indiana streets, in commercial lots, and throughout subdivisions, and now the single most common ash replacement in the area. The wild native form is still out in fencerows and old pastures carrying branched thorns on the trunk and limbs that puncture tires and boots — it is the same species as the nursery cultivars but not the same tree to work around.
Why that matters for tree work
This became the default replacement tree after emerald ash borer cleared the ash, and central Indiana now has street after street of it — which is the problem. Extension pathologists have warned for decades that honeylocust's pest and disease list turned serious precisely because it was overplanted, and a monoculture block moves mimosa webworm, mites, and canker through in a hurry.
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