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If you find this tree outside it's native range you are in luck. It makes some of the best fire wood of any tree in North American. It burns very slowly with little smoke.
Robinia pseudoacacia
Uses: Cherokee chewed root bark as an emetic; pounded root used to treat toothaches. Native americans groups made a groups made a declaration of love by presenting a branch with flowers to the object of there attachment. Seeds were received in France by Jean Robin (for whom the genus Robinia was named), herbalist to Henry IV of France; hence most early literature on the tree is European. An antispasmodic cough syrup was made of the aromatic flowers. Bark is a folk tonic, purgative, emetic. Inner bark said to be sweet like licorice. Flower tea used for rheumatism. In china the root bark is also considered purgative and emetic, and the flowers are considered diuretic. Flowers contain a glycoside, robinin, which is experimentally diuretic.
Warning: All parts are potentially toxic. The strong odor of the flowers historically reported to cause nausea and headaches in some patients.
