Other species of mesquite from South America are sometimes grown in warmer regions such as south Texas and the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. But these trees are not reliably cold hardy in North Texas.

Sand dunes covered with thickets of honey mesquite trees normally form oases bristling with desert wildlife. Insects, lizards and birds take shelter among the thorny branches, and the sand is ...

These trees grew from seeds resulting from the cross pollination of two patented parents, one a rare and thornless Texas mesquite, the other a cold-hardy mesquite from Argentina that also was ...

The lush green heart of the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is home to old mesquite groves that have thrived for millennia.

There are six species of mesquite trees native to the United States, from Southern California to Texas and from the Mexican border as far north as Oklahoma.