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Once the pod is dry, the whole pod is edible and can be ground into flour and made into bread. Mesquite wood was a popular type of wood used by early Spaniards to build ships, but is now used most commonly for high-end rustic furniture and cabinets.
Mesquite flour is made from the dried and ground pods of the mesquite (some Prosopis spp.), a tree that grows throughout Mexico and the southwestern US in arid and drought-prone climates. The flour made from the long, beige-colored seedpods has a sweet, slightly nutty flavor and can be used in a wide variety of applications.
The mesquite contributes greatly to the desert ecosystem. Coyotes, round-tailed ground squirrels, collared peccaries, mule deer, white-tailed deer, and jackrabbits all eat mesquite pods, as do livestock when they are available. [5] Birds feed on the flower buds. As a member of the legume family, mesquites fix nitrogen in the soil.
Mesquite pods also contain significant percentages of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals and have approximately twice the sugar content of sugar beets and sugar cane.
This species of mesquite, known as haas (pronounced ) by the Seri people of northwestern Mexico, is very important for food and nonfood uses. The Seris have specific names for various stages of the growth of the mesquite pod. [18] Historically, it was a very important wild food plant because it fruits even during drought years. [19]
Neltuma pallida (formerly Prosopis pallida) is a species of mesquite tree. [1] It has the common names kiawe (/ k iː ˈ ɑː v eɪ /) [2] (in Hawaii), huarango (in its native South America) and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis), "algarrobo pálido" (in some parts of Ecuador and Peru), and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba).
Invasive N. juliflora in Tamil Nadu, India A young specimen in Ab Pakhsh. Neltuma juliflora (Spanish: bayahonda blanca, Cuji in Venezuela, Trupillo in Colombia, Aippia in the Wayuunaiki language and long-thorn kiawe [1] in Hawaii), formerly Prosopis juliflora, is a shrub or small tree in the family Fabaceae, a kind of mesquite. [2]
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