There are three different kinds of Mesquite trees, the Honey Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa), Screwbean Mesquite (Prosopis pubescens ), and Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina).
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I'm using mesquite charcoal in the grill. Let's look a little more closely at this mesquite tree.
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A mesquite tree is a vascular plant, meaning it has specialized tissues for transporting water and nutrients throughout its body. This allows the mesquite tree to grow large, complex structures such as leaves, branches, and roots.
Mesquite isn't a type of grass. It's a type of tree. Mesquite makes good BBQ wood. Other than that, the actual tree itself has thorns and a bluish gray moss like fungus growing on it.
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Eating the leaves or the wood of the mesquite tree would not be very tasty. However, the Comanche Indians living in the southwestern plains used to harvest seeds (beans) from the mesquite tree, and grind them into a paste which they used to sweeten and flavor their meat.
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A mesquite tree is a dicot. Dicots are characterized by having two seed leaves when germinating, whereas monocots have only one seed leaf. Mesquite trees belong to the Fabaceae family, which is a group of dicot plants.