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All very valid points. I live in the dessert, and we have mesquite trees here everywhere. They also produce a bean in a pod which I learned several years ago is
by dan353hehe 2y ago
All very valid points. I live in the dessert, and we have mesquite trees here everywhere. They also produce a bean in a pod which I learned several years ago is edible!
I ordered some flour and put it in bread and other things. It’s a sweet flour that tastes like a very interesting chocolate.
It’s just hard to harvest, and to mill, and not a lot of people are willing to eat different things.
But the tree thrives on less then 8 inches of rain a year.
- culi 2y agoI love mesquite! It's a staple crop of indigenous people there. It's also got some of the deepest roots of any plant ever and can spread rhizomatically. It was introduced into the old world to hopefully fight desertification but has ended up being one of the worst invasive plants ever introduced. You'd basically need an excavator to get rid of one once established