Accession #: 198500738
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Mesquite
Family: Fabaceae
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Country of Origin: Mexico, South America and the Caribbean
Description: Leaves with 1-2 pairs of pinnae, leaflets 11-19 pairs per pinna, spaced 1/4 inch apart, oblong or linear-oblong, 3/4" long, less than 5 times as long as wide, glabrous or slightly ciliate; fruit nearly straight, beaked, glabrous.
Coastal, from Mexico south to Columbia and Venezuela, and islands of the Caribbean. There is much debate about the exact natural origins of this plant as it is likely to have been spread by early human movement throughout the region.
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USDA Zone: 7a-11
Source: Unknown
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