Palo brea
Parkinsonia praecox (Ruiz & Pav.) Hawkins
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 7.5 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Sonoran palo verde
Formerly Caesalpinia brea, Caesalpinia praecox, Cercidium goldmanii, Cercidium plurifoliolatum, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Guatemala, S. Trop. America to ArgentinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from University of Arizona Arboretum, one source
- Height
- 6.0 m to 9.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from University of Arizona Arboretum and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from University of Arizona Arboretum and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from University of Arizona Arboretum, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Spanish
- Palo brea, Manteco, Chañar Brea
- root
- Choij; Choy; Choix, Maas
- Slovak
- parkinsónia včasná
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
- University of Arizona Arboretum, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Parkinsonia praecox (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.