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Prosopis velutina, commonly known as velvet mesquite, is a small to medium-sized tree. It is a legume adapted to a dry, desert climate. Though considered to be a noxious weed in states outside its natural range, [ citation needed ] it plays a vital role in the ecology of the Sonoran Desert .
Mesquite is a common name for some plants in the genus Prosopis and Neltuma, both of which contain over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas . They have extremely long roots to seek water from very far under ground.
Neltuma glandulosa, formerly Prosopis glandulosa, commonly known as honey mesquite, [4] is a species of small to medium-sized, thorny shrub [5] or tree in the legume family . Distribution [ edit ]
Mesquite is a common name for several small trees in the genus Prosopis native to North American deserts. Mesquite may also refer to: Biology. Mesquite lizard;
Prosopis humilis, the algarrobilla or algaroba (carob in Spanish), is a mesquite, a flowering plant and a tree species in the genus Prosopis found in Argentina. It is placed in subfamily Caesalpinioideae. [1]
Prosopis laevigata, commonly known as smooth mesquite, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, ...
Mesquite Bosque is a vegetative association within the Southwestern United States, under the Kuchler scheme of plant association categories. Geography
Flower spikes. Strombocarpa pubescens (formerly Prosopis pubescens), commonly known as screwbean mesquite, [2] is a species of flowering shrub or small tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the southwestern United States (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, southern Nevada and Utah) and northern Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora).