Accession Data
Prosopis juliflora
Common Name: Mesquite
Family: Fabaceae
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.
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 7a-11
Accession #: 198500738
Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 1318
Quantity: 1
Source: Unknown
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosid I
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
SubFamily: Mimosoideae
Tribe: Mimoseae
References
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, February 28, 2018.
- Prosopis juliflora at CABI Invasive Species Compendium. Last accessed on Wednesday, February 28, 2018.
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