Today was shopping day in the Valley (Surprise and Glendale, AZ). We were in the parking lot of a store in Glendale where the mesquite trees were flowering like crazy. We don’t get as many flowers until later in the spring at our higher elevation in Wickenburg. Click on the image to enlarge.
I’ve never seen them in flower.
Do they any scent?
Not that I could smell. Alot of them dont smell. But they are pretty.
Well, that’s actually not a mesquite (Prosopis spp), but a palo verde tree (Cercidium spp). Notice the green branches on it, whereas a mesquite doesn’t have green on the branches. Mesquite flowers are different, too. They bear lots of small flowers on catkins. They are closely related, though.
Your exactly right it is a palo verde sorry, my bad. I meant palo verde, musta been tired or old or something. . . Thanks Crotalus.