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Prosopis chilensis (Molina) Stuntz
FAMILY: Fabaceae or Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae (bean or pea)
ENGLISH: Chilean algarrobo, Chilean mesquite, mesquite
SPANISH: acacia de catarina, algarroba, algarrobo, algarrobo blanco,
algarrobo de Chile, amansa caballo, cambrón, carbón, catzimec,
chachaca, guatapana, kitwe, manca-caballo, mesquite, nacascol,
plumo de oro, trupillo, yaque
USES/NOTES: Cultivated for its nutritious seeds and sweet fruit pods,
which are used for bread, mush, atole (a beverage), and beer.
Possibly conspecific with P. juliflora (Sw.) DC.
NATURAL RANGE: Northwestern Argentina and central and northern Chile,
likely to Bolivia and Peru, and perhaps beyond in South America,
naturalized in many favorable locations
REFERENCES: Burkart 1976, Duke and Vásquez 1994, Facciola 1990, Kunkel
1984, Mabberley 1987, Soukup 1970, Yanovsky 1936
Prosopis glandulosa Torrey var. glandulosa [syn. P. juliflora auct.
non (Sw.) DC.]
FAMILY: Fabaceae or Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae (bean or pea)
ENGLISH: cashaw, honey mesquite, honeypod, mesquite
PORTUGUESE: alfarroba, alfarrobeira, algaroba, algarobia, algarrobo,
goma-de-mesquite
SPANISH: aroma, bayahonda, cují carora, cují yaque, curí carora, curí
yaque, manca-caballo, mesquite, mezquita, mezquite, tornillo,
trupilla
USES/NOTES: Sweet pods are consumed fresh, cooked, dried and ground
into flour, or fermented into an alcoholic beverage. Flowers and
sweet gum are edible, and chipped wood is added to barbecues for
flavor. Pestiferous in parts of its range due to overgrazing. Also
medicinal.
NATURAL RANGE: Southwestern U.S. and adjacent Mexico
REFERENCES: Accorsi et al. n.d., Adams 1972, Bailey Hortorium 1976,
Cutter et al. 1991, Duke 1986, Harrington 1967, Heywood 1978, OAS
1973, Tull 1978, Uphof 1968
Prosopis glandulosa var. torreyana (L. Benson) I.M. Johnston [syn.
P. juliflora var. torreyana L. Benson, P. odorata Torrey & Frémont]
FAMILY: Fabaceae or Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae (bean or pea)
ENGLISH: western honey mesquite
PORTUGUESE: alfarroba, algaroba, algarrobo, goma-de-mesquite
SPANISH: mesquite
USES/NOTES: Sweet pods and gum are edible.
NATURAL RANGE: Southwestern U.S. and adjoining Mexico, naturalized and
invasive in other warm regions
REFERENCES: Bailey Hortorium 1976, Cronk and Fuller 1995, Felger and
Moser 1971, Uphof 1968
Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.
FAMILY: Fabaceae or Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae (bean or pea)
ENGLISH: ironwood, mesquite
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