Taxon: Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

HI*°, PR*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Prosopis juliflora var. horrida (no accessions)
• Prosopis juliflora var. juliflora (no accessions)

Common names:

• algarroba-bean   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• ironwood   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• mesquite   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bayarone   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Mesquitebaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• algaroba   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• prosópis   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• algarrobo   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish
  
• cují negro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mesquite   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mesquite   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Firewood Cr; Fagg & Stewart, 1994)
  
• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Burkart in J Arn Arb 57:502, as P. juliflora var. horrida)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Burkart in J Arn Arb 57:502, as P. juliflora var. horrida)
  
• Fuels: charcoal   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: tannin/dyestuff   (fide Rico, pers. comm.)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Trop Leg; Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Prosopis juliflora from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador [incl. Galapagos]; Peru [n.]

• AFRICA
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Myanmar
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Brazil: Brazil

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Burkart, A. 1976. A monograph of the genus Prosopis (Leguminosae subfam. Mimosoideae). J. Arnold Arbor. 57:499.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Du Puy, D. J. et al. 2002. The Leguminosae of Madagascar.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Fagg, C. W. & J. L. Stewart. 1994. The value of Acacia and Prosopis in arid and semi-arid environments. J. Arid Environm. 27:9.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Pp. 11:211–214 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Nasir, S. M. & M. Athar. 1998. Fuelwood as an energy source. Phytologia 85:106.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rico, L. & T. Pennington. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Neotropical Mimosoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wiggins, I. L. & D. M. Porter. 1971. Flora of the Galapagos islands.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prosopis juliflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prosopis juliflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prosopis juliflora.

Synonyms:

• Mimosa juliflora Sw. [≡ Prosopis juliflora var. juliflora]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Prosopis horrida Kunth [≡ Prosopis juliflora var. horrida]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Prosopis vidaliana Náves [= Prosopis juliflora var. juliflora]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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