Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A tree, up to 13 m. high, but usually smaller, with widely spreading branches, armed with stipular slender straight spines, 1-4 cm. long, the slender twigs glabrous or nearly so. Leaves glabrous, or when young sparingly ciliate, 0.7-2 dm. long; petioles slender, 1-4 cm. long; pinnae 1 or 2 pairs, shortstalked; leaflets 12-20 pairs, linear-oblong, sessile, 7-16 mm. long, strongly few-veined, obtuse or mucronulate at the apex, obliquely obtuse at the base; flowers greenish or yellowish, in dense cylindric peduneled spikes, 5-10 cm. long, 7-8 mm. thick; calyx about 1 mm. long, its teeth short; petals about 2.5 mm. long, acute, villous within; ovary villous; pod compressed, falcate, 7-20 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, 5-7 mm. thick when mature.
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Distribution
Waste places, introduced but not planted, Inagua, near Mathew Town : Cuba ; Hispaniola : Tortola ; Montserrat ; Jamaica : Bonaire ; Curacao ; Aruba ; continental tropical America. Naturalized in the Philippine Islands. Mesquite.
Inagua Bahamas South America| Cuba South America| West Indies| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Montserrat South America| Jamaica South America| Bonaire South America| Curaçao South America| Aruba South America|