Honey Mesquite Tree

"Honey mesquite is a shrub or small tree to 30 ft. The crown spreads a distance equal or more to the height. Twigs are armed with sharp thorns up to 2 inches long especially on young plants. Twice-compound, deciduous leaves are very bright green and feathery. Leaflets up to 2 inches long and 3 1/16 inches wide. Tiny, yellow-green, fragrant flowers occur in dense, spike-like racemes appearing in April and as late as August during wet summers. Fruit a long, yellowish-brown pod, somewhat flattened and with slight constrictions between the seeds."

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"It has a broad ecological amplitude and is adapted to a very wide range of soils and site types from sand dunes to cracking clays. It is generally found in areas where water and soil fertility are the principal agents limiting plant growth, and is able to survive, and even thrive, on some of the poorest land, unsuitable for any other tree species."

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