NOUN
- densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium
How To Use palo verde In A Sentence
- Organ Pipe is quintessential Sonoran Desert terrain, a landscape of cactus and creosote bush interspersed with jagged mountains and laced with thickets of mesquite, ironwood, and palo verde trees.
- Bailey said that if even one of the fuel rods leaks, Palo Verde officials would put the plant on alert.
- I grew up in Arizona and learned to love saguaros, palo verdes and desert vistas.
- The smell of creosote bush after rain, the columnar saguaro, the lime green palo verde tree - this is my landscape.
- Many plants also have methods of asexual reproduction (vegetative reproduction), which produces offspring that are genetically identical to the parent: root-sprouting (limberbush, palo verde, aspen), stolons and rhizomes (agaves, strawberries, many grasses), and aerial plantlets (some agaves, mother-of-millions, kalanchoe). Pollination ecology of desert plants
- Foothill palo verde and ironwood - two small trees in the legume family - almost always dominate the dry streambeds.
- We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees.
- Shrubs like dodonaea and yellow bird of paradise, trees such as mesquite and palo verde, succulents and cactus, of course, and even wildflowers - all are thriving in an increasing number of desert gardens.
- Bailey said Palo Verde officials are continuing to inspect the assembly core and to develop a strategy for its removal.
- Streams, although they may flow only intermittently, help support the growth of several trees, among them blue palo verde, mesquite, velvet ash, small-leaved mulberry, netleaf hackberry, and soapberry.