Neltuma glandulosa
honey mesquite
Central US to Mexico
Prosopis glandulosa (syn.)
Honey mesquite at Carnegie Institute. Sairus Patel, 12 Jan 2019
Honey mesquite in flower, Carnegie Institute. Sairus Patel, 2 Jun 2022
This tree with drooping branchlets vaguely resembles the pepper tree, Schinus molle. A fine 15-foot specimen grows at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Plant Biology on Panama Street, behind the Keck Laboratories next to a redwood.
Honey mesquite. John Rawlings, ca. 2005
Illustrations: detail from Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope, George B. Sudworth, USDA, 1908.
About this Entry: The main text of this entry is from the book Trees of Stanford and Environs, by Ronald Bracewell, published 2005. Scientific name updated, range edited (Dec 2023, SP).
