Mazhar Botanic Garden

Parkinsonia aculeata L.

Palo Verde Jerusalem thorn Jelly bean tree

Sample code: EGY-MBG-000194
English name: Palo Verde, Jerusalem thorn, Jelly bean tree
Arabic name: باركنسونيا
Native: Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador
Country: Bolivia Brazil Ecuador Mexico
(PGR): Very common

Spiny shrub or small tree, up to 4-10 m tall leaves bipinnately compound flowers clusters , golden yellow, fragrant, showy, 2 cm across pods nearly cylindrical, 5-10 cm long, seeds beanlike oblong 1 cm long

soil: Various types, especially desert gravel and sands along valleys and canyons also saline

•Firewood, charcoal, medicine, fodder (pods and leaves).windbreak.

Inga pyriformis Jungh, Mimosa pedunculata Hunter

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Water Sources: Moderate Water
Lights: Full sun
Propagation: Seeds, semi hard wood cuttings.
Flowering time: Spring, summer, fall winter
Zone: 8 : 10

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