Honey Mesquite

Honey Mesquite

Taxobox
name = Honey Mesquite


image_caption = "Prosopis glandulosa" foliage with seed pods
image_width = 250px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
genus = "Prosopis"
species = "P. glandulosa"
binomial = "Prosopis glandulosa"

Honey Mesquite ("Prosopis glandulosa") is a medium to small tree with rounded crown and crooked, drooping branches with feathery foliage and straight paired spines on twigs. This tree normally grows to 20 to 30 feet but can grow as tall as 50 feet. It flowers from March to November with pale, yellow, elongated spikes and bears straight, yellow pods which are consumed by a number of wild animal species. It is considered to have a medium growth rate.

This variety of mesquite, known as haas IPA| [ʔaːs] by the Seri people of northwestern Mexico, was very important for food and non-food uses. The Seris had specific names for various stages of the growth of the mesquite pod [cite book |last=Felger |first=Richard |coauthors=Mary B. Moser. |title=People of the desert and sea: ethnobotany of the Seri Indians |location=Tucson |year=1985 |publisher=University of Arizona Press] . Historically, it was a very important wild food plant because it fruits even during drought years [cite web
url=http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/progla/all.html
title=Species: Prosopis glandulosa
publisher=www.fs.fed.us
accessdate=2008-05-01
last=
first=] .

Native only to the southwestern USA and northern Mexico, honey mesquite has been introduced to at least a half-dozen other countries. The IUCN considers it as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species [cite web
url=http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=137&fr=1&sts=
title=issg Database: Ecology of Prosopis glandulosa
publisher=www.issg.org
accessdate=2008-05-01
last=
first=] .

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  • honey mesquite — noun thorny deep rooted drought resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets • Syn: ↑Western honey mesquite, ↑Prosopis glandulosa •… …   Useful english dictionary

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  • honey mesquite — a thorny drought resistant tree, Prosopis glandulosa, of the legume family, native to the southwestern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers. [1885 90, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • Western honey mesquite — noun thorny deep rooted drought resistant shrub native to southwestern United States and Mexico bearing pods rich in sugar and important as livestock feed; tends to form extensive thickets • Syn: ↑honey mesquite, ↑Prosopis glandulosa • Hypernyms …   Useful english dictionary

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