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-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:25 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: > Another great catch Raman ji > > regards > > prasad > > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:43 AM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> The Mesquite has been introduced in Asia and Africa and is now wide >> spread in the semi-arid areas of the world. In many areas, it is considered >> a weed. It is a drought resistant small tree, and has been planted in dry >> areas of Delhi. It is a deciduous thorny shrub or small tree, to 12 m tall; >> trunk to 1.2 m in diameter, bark thick, brown or blackish, shallowly >> fissured; leaves compound, commonly many more than 9 pairs, the leaflets >> are mostly 5–10 mm long, linear-oblong, glabrous, often hairy, commonly >> rounded at the apex; stipular spines, if any, yellowish, often stout; >> flowers perfect, greenish-yellow, sweet-scented, spikelike; corolla deeply >> lobate. Pods several-seeded, strongly compressed when young, thick at >> maturity, more or less constricted between the seeds, 10–25 cm long, brown >> or yellowish, 10–30-seeded. Mesquite pods are among the earliest known >> foods of prehistoric man in the new world. Today flour products made from >> the pods are still popular, although only sporadically prepared, mostly by >> Amerindians. Pods are made into gruels, sometimes fermented to make a >> mesquite wine >> Raman >> > > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 >
