The scientific name of Palo Verde is Parkinsonia And it is coming from the family of Caesalpinioideae trees and is a native tree of the southwest of the United States, Mexico and South America and could be classified as an invasive plant since when it was introduced mainly as a crop to the degree to which it adapted so well to the environment that was behaving as a weed. We tell you everything you need to know for Sow a green stick tree in your garden.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PALO VERDE
This tree is considered a Large size shrub but it's really a small tree which can reach a height of 10 m although the average is between 4 and 6 m. The green stick cortex is surprisingly soft, it has a well -developed trunk and its branches have thorns from 0.4 to 3 cm long. Presents a Short trunkusually twisted, with a wide and parasol -shaped glass, where its pendant foliage stands out. Normally the trunk presents ramifications from a very high, when the green stick tree is young, the cortex is smooth and greenish, both in the trunk and in the branches already measure that the plant becomes older, the cortex becomes dark and of a squamous contexture and has thin, green and smooth branches when it is a young tree but later they become rough.
But the most representative characteristic of this tree are undoubtedly its yellow flowers. These flowers appear in large clusters and are of an intense yellow color, which makes the Green Palo highly appreciated as an ornamental plant. They are bisexual flowers, with a chalice arranged in the form of a cup. 5 free petals oval and 5 rounded free petals. The fruit of the green stick grows in the form of a podit is a linear legume, which inside, the sheath can contain from one to 5 seeds and when mature is, its color is dark brown.