Tree Identification Please This tree was found in the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. I'm sorry I don't have a better close-up. Any ideas? Thank you.
at first glance I thought Zanthoxylum americanum, common prickly ash or toothache tree. but then I notied the catkins or flowers in the cluster. Perhaps a Gleditsia (honeylocust) variety?
Looks more like a Prosopis species (mesquite). These (both native and exotic species) are very common in the southwest.
From a visit ther I would agree it could be either a honey or velvet mesquite. Leaning more to the velvet due to size. the honey only atain a max size @30' the velvets @50'
