Mesquite
काटकळी
Neltuma juliflora (Sw.) Raf.
- light
- —
- water
- Little
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Long thorn kiawe
Formerly Acacia cumanensis, Acacia diptera, Acacia furcata, Acacia juliflora, and 23 more
When it flowers
Flowers October to January in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Venezuela and Bolivia, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 12 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers February to September, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers February to September, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers February to September, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers February to September, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers February to September, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers February to September, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- algarrobo blando, algarrobo, carbón
- root
- inda-a, hupala, Kabuli Kikar
- Portuguese
- algarobeira, Algaroba, Algaroba-verdadeira
- Dutch
- mesquite
- Russian
- Прозопис серёжкоцветный
- Arabic
- غاف عسيلي الأزهار, مسكيت
- Czech
- naditec jehnědokvětý
- Finnish
- meksikonmeskite
- Swedish
- mesquite
- Thai
- กระถินหางกระรอก
- Chinese (China)
- 牧豆树
- Polish
- jadłoszyn baziowaty
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Neltuma juliflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.