How messy are palo verde trees?

You also get to take advantage of all his tricks of the trade acquired over a lifetime in the desert. Many of the other seedling-grown palo verde species can be long and lanky, spiny, particularly messy, but amazingly drought-resistant.

Is Palo Verde an evergreen?

Blue palo verde tree is easily distinguished by its blue-green bark and brilliant yellow flower display. Its tiny leaves are cold and drought deciduous but, due to its blue-green color, it looks evergreen from a distance. Blue palo verde tree is naturally multi-trunked with a low hanging canopy.

How cold can palo verde trees get?

There he found that the Palo Verde tree could tolerate both scorching desert heat and frosty winter nighttime temperatures down to ten degrees.

How did the Desert Museum palo verde tree grow?

Desert Museum was a discovery, not the result of a breeding program. In 1979, I collected a few dozen seeds from a first-generation hybrid and grew them. All except one seedling were uninteresting. The one seedling grew into a superior tree. Genetic and phenotypic analysis revealed that the hybrid had been pollinated by a blue palo verde.

What kind of plant is a Desert Museum?

Uses: Ornamental. These hybrids are crosses between Blue, Yellow, and sometimes Mexican, Palo Verde species which are members of the Legume family (Fabaceae). The most well-known hybrid is ‘Desert Museum’. Do you have additional information or a different experience for this plant that you would like to share?

How did the palo verde tree get its name?

Yet it was a palo verde hybrid called Desert Museum that Perry singled out as special. It is named for Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, where three decades ago the director of natural history, Mark Dimmitt, identified a thornless seedling that would not just flower in the spring, but would keep blooming throughout the summer.

When does the Desert Museum flower in Tucson?

They begin when the earliest species blooms (blue palo verde) and continue through the late season of Mexican palo verde. Here in Tucson, Desert Museum flowers heavily from mid-April through June and continues to flower sporadically all summer into fall.