The iron wood tree is common here in Ky but I have never seen them got
much higher than 20'.  The only tree in this neck of the woods with long
thorns as Ken describes is a Honey Locust. Those thorns will flatten a
tractor tire.
We still take a branch and put gumdrops on every thorn for the revered
Yule gumdrop tree........ a product of  depression era creativity passed
down from my parents.  
 
pk

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Hop hornbeam sounds kinda right... can you see if younger versions that
don't get past the 10-15' growth have long thorns. I am curious if it
was because they felt repressed by the canopy of the surrounding trees
and were fighting back to claim their territory.

thnx,
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