Title: Mesquite trees provide food, fuel, medicine, and more – Arizona Daily Independent
Headings: Mesquite trees provide food, fuel, medicine, and more
Mesquite trees provide food, fuel, medicine, and more
Use as food
Medicine
Other uses
General information

Content: Resin from the tree was used as glue to mend pottery, or when boiled and diluted, as paint for pottery. The inner bark of the tree was used for basketry. Mesquite wood is used by artisans in southern Arizona to make some beautiful furniture. General information
There are several species of mesquite trees. Within the desert southwest, the Velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina), the Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), and the Screwbean mesquite (Prosopis pubescens) are most common. The Honey and Velvet can form hybrids. These deciduous plants form shrubs and trees up to 30 feet tall. The branches contain spines. Most of the roots of mesquite trees are within the upper three feet of soil where most of the oxygen and water are. However, mesquite roots can go very deep.