Chilean Mesquite Tree Leaves
Chilean mesquite has bipinnate compound leaves that are 4 to 6 inches long.
Chilean mesquite tree leaves. Chilean mesquite tree readily hybridizes with prosopis alba. Each lacy rich green leaf holds up to 40 leaflets of 1 2 to 1 inch in length. Semi evergreen foliage holds through warm winters and then sheds as buds break in spring. A very majestic looking tree for home landscaping.
Tall and 40ft wide. At the base of leaves are a pair of variably dangerous stipular spines that range in length from non existant to 3 inches long. It is a thornless mesquite tree and provides lots of good shade during the hot summer months. It will grow to about 40 ft.
Small catkin like flowers appear in the spring. Known for its low corkscrew branches and fissured reddish brown bark the mesquite tree prosopis glandulosa can be a decorative landscape specimen. Chilean mesquite tree is semi dormant from december to april shedding most of its foliage in the winter. The chilean mesquite also called a thornless mesquite tree prosopis chilensis does very well in the southwestern united states.
The flowers are followed by light brown elongated seedpods that ripen and fall to the ground in the summer. Some hybrids are thornless. Yellow leaves on a mesquite tree. Even under intense desert sun and heat chilean mesquite provides ample shade.