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Psorodendron spinosum
Smoketree is a spiny, leafless-looking desert legume tree that grows in dry washes of the Sonoran and Colorado Deserts. It thrives in hot, dry sites with sandy, well-drained soil and needs very little water once established.
Psorodendron spinosum (synonyms Psorothamnus spinosus and Dalea spinosa) is a perennial legume tree of the deserts in North America. Common names include smokethorn, smoketree, smoke tree, smokethorn dalea, and corona de Cristo.
P. spinosum is native to the desert washes in the Colorado Desert in Southern California, the Sonoran Desert in western Arizona, and most of eastern Baja California state including several northern Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) islands, The tree is common in Joshua Tree National Park, where it is called the smoketree.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psorodendron spinosum 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.
