Mexican palo verde
Parkinsonia aculeata L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Retama, Jerusalem thorn, Paloverde
Formerly Parkinsonia inermis, Parkinsonia spinosa, Parkinsonia thornberi
When it flowers
Flowers June to April 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 N. Argentina, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 2.0 m to 8.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Retama, Palo verde, Junco
- root
- huacóporo, quechi-pelle, Wakaporo
- Portuguese
- Cina-cina, Turco, Espinho-de-jerusalém
- Hebrew
- פרקינסוניה שיכנית
- Czech
- parkinsonie pichlavá
- Arabic
- باركنسونية الحادة, رطمة
- Chinese (China)
- 扁轴木
- Chinese
- 扁軸木, 扁轴木
- Afrikaans
- Mexikaanse Groenhaarboom, Meksikaanse groenhaarboom
- Russian
- Паркинсония шиповатая
- French
- Épine de Jérusalem
- German
- Jerusalemsdorn
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Parkinsonia aculeata (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.