Water Needs

Light Needs

Common Name

Arizona Velvet Mesquite

Scientific Name

Prosopis velutina

Botanical Pronunciation

PRO-sop-is vel-oo-TEE-na

Plant Type

Shade Trees

Deciduous / Evergreen

Deciduous

Special Features

Edible pods, Dried and toasted, the pods are ground into mesquite meal and mesquite flour. Both flour and meal are used to make cakes, breads, muffins, and pancakes.

Blooms

Spring-Summer,

Growth Habit

Upward

Growth Rate

Slow

Average Landscape Size

30' x 30'

Care Information

An established mesquite tree needs little or no watering

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USDA Hardiness Zone

5° F, Zone 7b

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