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Prosopis farcta
Syrian mesquite is a thorny, drought-tolerant desert shrub native from North Africa to Central Asia and northwest India. It thrives in hot, dry, sandy or gravelly ground where little else grows.
Prosopis farcta, the Syrian mesquite, is a species of the genus Prosopis, growing in and around the Middle East.
By and large the plant and its constituent parts are not toxic. There has been just one report where four children developed mild clinical toxicity after ingestion of seeds with pods.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Prosopis farcta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
