Prosopis juliflora
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Edible portion:Seeds, Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Flowers - tea, Gum, Vegetable A small tree up to 15- 20 m tall with long cracks in the bark. It is often a smaller tree about 3-5 m high. It is spiny and deciduous. Some kinds have thorns 5 cm long. The young branches are smooth and green. The bark is...
- Since (India) colonial times, planners, policy makers and forestry expertshave given much emphasis to introducing fast growing and welladapted exotic woody species from iso-climatic regions of the worldinto arid and semi-arid India. Some of these exhibited remarkableadaptability and growth in...
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Malaria Journal 2017 Abstract Background A neglected aspect of alien invasive plant species is their influence on mosquito vector ecology and malaria transmission. Invasive plants that are highly attractive toAnophelesmosquitoes provide them with sugar that is critical to their survival. The...