File:Mesquite trees have long been used by native people of the southwest for food, medicine, beverages, glue, hair dye, firewood (2bcba182-1dd8-b71b-0b41-c9967dbddee2).JPG

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English: Mesquite seed pods
Photographer
English: NPS Photo
Title
English: Mesquite seed pods
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
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Mesquite seed pods

Mesquite trees have long been used by native people of the southwest for food, medicine, beverages, glue, hair dye, firewood, construction material, and furniture making. The pods of the beans are very sweet and can be ground into flour. Mesquite co-evolved with large herbivores such as mammoths, mastodons, and ground sloths, which ate the pods and dispersed them widely. When these Pleistocene animals became extinct, mesquites retreated to flood plains and washed where water and weathering scarified the seeds are aided in germination. The introduction of cattle helped to expand the range of mesquite once again.
Depicted place
English: Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
Date Taken on 27 November 2014
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2bcba182-1dd8-b71b-0b41-c9967dbddee2
Source
English: NPGallery
Permission
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
ALFL
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English: Ethnobotany: Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants

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