Prosopis pubescens (Fabaceae)

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Screwbean mesquite. Origine: Sud uOest Usa. PH 6 à 8. Arbre de terrain sec à semi aride, Hauteur: 5m largeur 5m et+ possible.  Besoin en eau : de 13 à 26cm d’eau par an. Bien dans les jardins désertiques. Fleurs jaunes pâles tubulaires suivies de gousses en petites spirales.

Ethnobotany – Native American Ethnobotany; University of Michigan – Dearborn
Prosopis pubescens has been used for a multitude of purposes by southwestern United States indigenous peoples.

  • Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero Food, Beverage, Bread, Dried Food and Special Food; Fruit ground and sugar added to make a thick drink and pods dried, washed, ground into flour and made into bread and fruits gathered, dried and stored in sacks and raw pods chewed and eaten as a delicacy.
  • Apache, Mescalero Drug, Ear Medicine; Pods soaked in water and used for earache and beans placed in ear for earache.
  • Cahuilla Drug, Medicinal and Fiber, Building Material; Roots and bark had medicinal value and large limbs used in construction.
  • Cahuilla Food, Beverage; Pod meal and water used to make a beverage and pods crushed into a pulpy juice and used to make a beverage.
  • Cahuilla Food, Bread & Cake and Dried Food; Pod meal and water used to make cakes and ripe pods allowed to dry or picked after fully dried and ground into meal.
  • Cahuilla Food, Staples; Pod meal and water used to make mush and pods used as one of the important food staples and ripe pods allowed to dry or picked after fully dried and ground into meal.
  • Cahuilla Other, Hunting & Fishing Item and Tools; Small limbs used to make bows and long branch made into a mescal cutter to sever agave leaves.
  • Hualapai Fiber, Furniture and Food, Dried Food; Roots used to make cradleboard frames and pods dried and stored for later use and as food.
  • Isleta Food, Unspecified; Pods chewed for the starch content and agreeable taste.
  • Kamia Food, Unspecified; Coiled pod used for food
  • Mohave Food, Beverage and Vegetable; Bean pods rotted in a pit for a month, dried, ground into a flour and used to make a drink and bean pods used for food.
  • Paiute Drug, Eye Medicine and Food, Unspecified; Infusion of gummy exudate on bark used as an eyewash andpounded beans used for food.
  • Pima Drug, Dermatological Aid and Gynecological Aid; Decoction of roots used as a wash or powdered roots applied to sores and powdered root bark or decoction used to dress wounds and infusion of roots taken for troubles with menses.
  • Pima Fiber, Building Material and Other, Fuel; Wood used for fence posts and wood used for fuel.
  • Pima Food, Beverages and Candy; Beans ground, mixed with water and made into a nourishing and sweet beverage and beans sun dried, pounded into meal, mixed with cold water and used as a drink and fresh, sugary pods chewed by children.
  • Pima Food, Forage and Staples; Pods and foliage eaten by grazing animals and beans pit cooked, dried, pounded and eaten as pinole and beans pit roasted for several days, dried and ground into a pinole.
  • Pima, Gila River Food, Snack Foods; Catkins eaten as a snack food by all age groups and sap eaten as a snack food by all age groups.
  • Pima, Gila River Food, Staples; Beans used to make flour and fruit used as a staple food.
  • Pima, Gila River Other, Season Indicator; Leaves used as a sign that planted crops would be safe from freezing weather.
  • Tewa Drug, Ear Medicine; Pods twisted into the ear for an earache.

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