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