Robinia - To Kill Or Not?

[Prudie]

I have a Robinia (false acacia) that has self-seeded slap bang in the middle of a perennial flower bed. The mother tree is about 10 feet away and well over 30 feet high. Obviously it can't stay there, is growing at a rate of knots and is already nearly 6 feet high (it only became visible late last summer?. Of my options which would you do, based on gardening skills?
1 dig it up and throw it away
2 dig it up and give it to someone I know who'd take it now but it's completely the wrong time of year to move and it would still likely die
3 cut it back to say a foot high and try digging up and giving it away early winter when it's the most likely time for it to survive a move?

Or? I'm sure it would cost a bomb if it was potted up in a garden centre.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd say it was your personal choice: but I try not to kill if it can be avoided.

[Old_Geezer]

PS expect more gifts for friends every year from now ;-)

[woofgang]

I would dig it up with a huge rootball and give it away. Its my experience that you can move almost anything at any time of year if you make sure the rootball is as big as possible and its kept well watered.

[Chipchopper]

Robinias are prolific in sending up root suckers, far and wide and its my guess that is what its most likely to be.
You could transplant it, as you suggest and it would probably take ok but I doubt if there would be much fibrous root on it.
Good luck if you choose option (3) and watch out for the thorns.