Widow maker Tree?

Question

What is the scientific name of a widow maker tree?

It s a tree, my firend told me was called the widow maker. It has huge, strong thorns on it. And pods for its seeds, if that helps any. I wish to know its scientific name.

Answer 1

I think you have a locust tree. I believe they're called widow makers due to an annoying habit of them snapping when someone is cuttting them down, falling the wrong way or snapping backward into the person with the saw. I do know it is very hard wood, so the snapping could be true.

Answer 2

Widow Tree

Answer 3

a widow maker is a broken branch hung up in a tree. When someone starts chopping on the tree, it falls on them and kills them.
Becuase it is usually a male doing that kind of work, it was called a widow maker.
Not a type of tree.

Answer 4

I once lived in Marin County, CA, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. There were hordes of the Australian Eucaluptus all over the place. The main thing about these gigantic, montrous weeds is that they are filled with oil. When the sun shines and it is hot, this oil heats up and expands, and branches, often very large ones, thereby snap off and plunge from a great height to the ground, possibly striking and killing passers-by. It almost happened to me, and it did happen to someone else in the area while I was there.

These blasted things are the worst trees I have ever experienced. They grow to a great height, and shed everything that a tree is made of. Their bark peels and falls off, and is oily, so you can slip on it, if you don't slip on the leaves that drop off continually and lay about, oily and slippery. They have flowers that drop off and are slippery. And they have large, three-sided nuts that come to a point and drop from the afore-mentioned great height and damage your car, your cat, your head....and they smell like cat spunk/urine/spray. Furthermore, even if you tear them out of the ground, they then sprout up 100 times more from any root remnants left in the ground. They are vicious, useless, and I hope that some kind of mold or beetle or something evolves to kill every last one of them.

Answer 5

Widowmaker Tree

Answer 6

The Australian Ghost Gum Eucalyptus papuana is also termed the "widow maker", due to the high number of pioneer tree-felling workers who were killed by falling branches

Answer 7

hi, the tree is a locaust or black locaust, a widow maker is what old time loggers refered to when the top of a cut tree remaines caught up in the canopy, it could fall at any minute.

Answer 8

Hi, my husband told me that the Australian Eucalyptus trees are used to make paper. The paper industry loves them because they grow so fast, but otherwise they are useless and a pest!