| Common Name |
Screwbean Mesquite, Tornillo |
| Latin Name |
Prosopis pubescens |
| Native Habitat |
Below 4,000 feet in deserts from California to Texas
including Mexico |
| Soil |
Dry to moist, decomposed granite, sand, clay loam, low
to some organic content, well drained |
| Water |
Once per month |
| Height X Width |
25 feet X 25 feet, usual 15 feet X 15 feet |
| Protective Mechanism |
Thorns |
| Leaves |
Lime green, winter deciduous, bipinnately compound, lacy |
| Garden Suitability |
Fragrant, Songbird, Sonoran |
| Ornamental Value |
Yellow flowers in late spring, fragrant, interesting
seedpods |
| Nature Value |
Soil stabilizer, flowers used by butterflies and bees,
beans eaten by birds and mammals |
| Native American Uses |
Beans ground into pinole, medicinal, bark used for
basketry, cloth, and rope, wood used for firewood and making tools, gum
used for glues and paint, catkins eaten |
| Links |
|
| Images and data |
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Prosopis_pubescens.html |
| Nursery, in\mages, and
data |
http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/538.htm |
| Images and data |
http://cals.arizona.edu/pima/gardening/aridplants/Prosopis_pubescens.html |
| Images and data |
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/Syllabus2/factsheet.cfm?ID=540 |
| Distribution map |
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PRPU |
| Images and data |
http://museum.utep.edu/chih/gardens/plants/NtoQ/prospube.htm |
