Locust?

[John P.]

There are a number of these around Laguna Beach, and if they are locust trees they are much more gnarled than any I’ve seen (online or in-person).

Do you agree that it’s a locust? If so, honey, black, or another?

 

[moke]

Wow cool looking trees!!!
Looks like a Black Locust to me.

 

[John P.]

Wow cool looking trees!!!
Looks like a Black Locust to me.
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Thanks—that’s what I was thinking. Gonna plant ‘em up!

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I doesn't look like the pseudoacacia growing here, those have deep vertically ridged bark after 15 years, and the young branches are full of thorns.
I am not seeing those two identifiers.
My guess is honey locust.

 

[just.wing.it]

The bark is different than the Black Locust round the Mid Atlantic...I also don't see thorns.
The leaves resemble black locust....doesnt look like honey locusts at all to me.

 

[Starfox]

My first reaction was it's a Pistacia lentiscus but those seeds aren't from a Mastic.

 

[John P.]

Here’s another one about 2 blocks away from the other one ...