| Common Name |
Western honey mesquite, Honey mesquite |
| Latin Name |
Prosopis glandulosa |
| Native Habitat |
3,000 to 4,500 feet in Mojave and Sonoran Deserts |
| Soil |
Dry, decomposed granite, sand, clay loam, low
to high organic content, well drained |
| Water |
Once or twice per month depending on soil in hot weather |
| Height X Width |
20 feet X 20 feet |
| Protective Mechanism |
Thorns |
| Leaves |
Small leaflet pairs, deciduous |
| Garden Suitability |
Songbird, Sonoran |
| Ornamental Value |
White flowers with long stamens late summer, early fall, seed pods |
| Nature Value |
Flowers used by bees, seeds eaten by birds, animal eat
seeds and pods |
| Native American Uses |
Blossoms used to make tea, pods crushed into sweet pulpy
juice, dried pods ground into meal to make mush and cakes, pods eaten
raw, roasted blossoms boiled and eaten, bark pounded to make soft cloth
for diapers, clothing, netting for pottery, and cordage, gum used as
adhesive to make arrow, wood used to make bows |
| Links |
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| Images and data |
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/Mesquite.html |
| Nursery, images and data |
http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/537.htm |
| Images and data |
http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/dendrology/Syllabus2/factsheet.cfm?ID=539 |
| Images and data |
http://www.explorenm.com/plants/Fabaceae/Prosopis/glandulosa/ |
| Images |
http://www.opsu.edu/UnivSchools/ScienceMathNurs/PlantsGrassh/plants/pasturefiles/pasture140.html |
| Distribution map |
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PRGL2 |
