Honey Mesquite
Prosopis glandulosa
Deciduous-Shrubs / Deciduous-Trees
(Detailed plant information can be found at the bottom of the page.)
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Prosopis glandulosa Plant Information
| Classification | |
|---|---|
| Scientific Name: | Prosopis glandulosa |
| Common Name: | honey mesquite |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Suggested Uses: | considered a weed tree across much of the region |
| Characteristics | |
| Plant Form: | large shrub to medium tree |
| Height: | 20 - 30 feet tall |
| Spread: | 25 - 40 feet wide |
| Foliage: | alternate, deciduous, long-petioled, bipinnately compound with 2 (or 3) pairs of pinnae,
and 12 to 20 pairs of leaflets each leaflet up to 2 inches long |
| Flower: | creamy white, 3 to 5 inch long drooping catkins fragrant, but often a source of allergens |
| Bloom Period: | mid- to late Spring, sporadically thereafter |
| Fruit: | pod |
| Bark: | reddish brown |
| Environment | |
| Sun: | full sun |
| USDA Zone: | zones 7 - 10 |
| Care | |
| Maintenance: | thorns can be liability and can limit use large coarse taproots hinder successful transplant of large-sized trees |
| Additional Notes: | extremely tough plant; thousands of acres of West Texas would have no trees if not for mesquite |
TTU Plant Resources
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Email
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