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Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia):  On rainy days and dusk the individual black locust leaflets will fold and the entire leaf will droop.  The last continental glaciation and almost wiped this tree out, confining it to a small area of the southern Appalachians.  Black locusts outside this area are their progeny.      
Leaf  display of a black locust (Otto, North Carolina)

Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia):  On rainy days and dusk the individual black locust leaflets will fold and the entire leaf will droop.  The last continental glaciation and almost wiped this tree out, confining it to a small area of the southern Appalachians.  Black locusts outside this area are their progeny.
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