For trade I have available:
20 Dragon's Blood Tree seeds (Dracaena draco)
1000 Jacaranda tree seeds (Jacaranda mimosifolia)
1000 LemonadeBerry Bush seeds (Rhus Integrifolia)
1000 Melaleuca styphelioides seeds

Please help, I have had so much trouble getting ahold of these common seeds.

3395 Lebon Drive
Apt. 204
San Diego, CA. 92122

It'd be great if you could get those seeds to me and if you see anything on my list that you want feel free to pick and choose. By the way have you ever tried using the seeds and pods for their edible uses? Any good?

http://www.desertusa.com/jan97/du-smesquite.html

P.S. if I get some screwbean mesquite would you like me to send you some also? It's named for it's seed pods which are very distinctive.

As far as mesquites go, you can expect very fast growth, at least when young and with plenty of water. A year from germinating you should have a cute little plant around three feet tall, and supposedly it can start producing pods a couple years later. Germination rates are also very good (around 100%), as long as you clean the seeds well, scarify them, and let them sit overnight in water before planting in soil. Make sure to protect the young plants from herbivores, which will eat the leaves and tender shoots, setting the growth back significantly.

Also, as regards to mesquite's edibility, yes I've tried it, and it's great! A couple years ago I gathered enough pods of velvet mesquite in Southeastern AZ to grind into about ten pounds of flour (with a hand grain mill). The grinding and sifting took much more time than the harvesting, which is very quick and easy. I'm still using the last of that batch of mesquite flour to mix with regular flour for pancakes, bread, etc. It's delicious and very nutritious.

I'd love to hear more about your plant adventures. Hope this was helpful,
Chris

So if anybody feels like they want some of those just let me know and I'll return the favor.

I have large mesquite trees and they produce abundantly. I have wondered how I would go about using them for flout.

Thanks,
Jan

Sorry for the late response... Basically the process for making flour from the pods is the following:
1) Collect the best-looking pods from the ground when they're ripe and golden.
2) Dry in sun or parch on low setting in oven for an hour to make the pods nice and brittle for better grinding.
3) Grind whole pods in hand mill, but the seeds will be too hard, they'll just slip out whole through the grinder. That's fine because the carbs are in the pod itself.
4) Sift flour multiple times and continue to grind courser material until it's the right consistency. I actually used a high-tech blender (VitaMix) that can also grind flour, for the last stages to get it really fine. A coffee grinder would probably work in a similar way. I've even heard that is a cooperative in Tucson that has a huge flour grinder specifically for mesquite. In this case I think the seeds end up as part of the flour because the machinery can handle it. But anyway, there are lots of people who are interested in using this wonderful local resource.

A bit more info:
It's also a good idea to chew on some pods as you harvest in order to make sure you're getting the good ones. You'll notice quite a variation from tree to tree, but the best ones are usually nice and thick. Also, if you don't want to pick them up off of the ground, you can pick them right off of the tree, but they won't be quite as dry so they'll require more parching, etc.

For all of this I loosely followed a whole bunch of sources, but the book American Indian Food and Lore by Carolyn Niethammer in particular is excellent, with detailed descriptions for processing mesquite and loads of other wild plant foods. It is beautiful as well as practical, and includes lots of recipes too. I imagine it's out of print, but is probably easy to get used online.

Hope this helps,

Chris

If anyone has a extra Mesquite seeds I sure would love them ..I don't have much to offer @ this time to trade other than Vitex " Chaste Tree" seeds or paying for postage.

Thank you
Vicki

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I'm interested it because of its amazing shape.

Are there anyone send me some of this amazing seedpod?

I live in Thailand, so I can send back some Thai plant seed in return.

Best regards,

Am looking for some honey mesquite seeds. Don't need many, maybe 3 - 5 would work I think.

If anyone has any I would be happy to trade seeds for them. I have a ton of different kinds of seeds for edible vegetation or ornamental.

Thanks for looking.

God bless

I have been seeking the seeds of Honey Mesquite. I'm from Hungary, and I would like to try this plant here for beekeeping. I tried every nurseries (not just in Hungary, but in other European countries) but couldn't find it. This tree is hardly known here.
If someone could help me, I would be very happy. Of course I would pay for delivery, postage or other costs.

I live in south Austin, TX near Dripping Springs.

thanks
these are some pictures of what im expecting so if anyone has plz email me thanks .

http://growingwithscience.com/screwbean-mesquite.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Prosopis_pubescens_ beans.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2579/3935043335_5bfee6146f.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3493/4004087758_7d5de50876_z.jpg