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Prosopis chilensis

The semi-deciduous tree has become popularized over the years and is one of the most widely used trees in Southwest landscapes. It grows thirty feet tall and wide with dark, rich bark that is rough and turns blacker with age. Chilean mesquite…

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Pistacia chinensis

The deciduous shade tree grows at a moderate rate of thirty-five to forty feet tall and twenty-five to thirty-five feet wide, producing a rounded canopy and attractive branching pattern. Lower branches droop towards the ground at maturity…

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Pistacia lentiscus

This dense evergreen makes an excellent screen, growing twenty to twenty-five feet high and wide. It can be trained as a single or multi-stem tree or a large hedge. Its small, leathery leaves are olive green and have three to five pairs of leaflets…

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Parkinsonia x

This semi-deciduous, “thorn-less” tree has characteristics of the foothills, blue, and Mexican palo verde. It is quite similar to the other Parkinsonia species, growing rapidly to heights of twenty to twenty-five feet with an equal spread. This tree…

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Parkinsonia praecox

The semi-deciduous tree grows twenty to thirty feet tall with a spread of twenty to forty feet, producing an umbrella-like canopy. It adds sculptural beauty with its greenish-blue leaves and smooth, structural green trunk. Palo brea produces…

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Olneya tesota

Desert ironwood is a member of the pea family and its leaves and flowers resemble the sweet pea. This single- or multi-trunk tree reaches heights of twenty-five feet with a nearly equal spread, and is slow-growing. Ironwood is one of the oldest…

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