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Hi.
Can you name this plant
Ill give you a clue, I its distantly related to an lemon tree

Looks like a mesquite tree with walnuts

try again

With those leaves, it's hard not to think fabaceae, but your hint points elsewhere. I didn't see anything promising in rutaceae, but sapindaceae looks a little better.

Your along the right line.
there is a defeintly a clue in your answer, and thats all I can say. ;)

I'm still getting nowhere, although I've had an interesting tour of botanical web sites. Most of them have a long way to go without much chance of getting there. I'm glad people are trying, though.

well ill spit out the answer in a few more days.
Glad ive got the wheels turning for you!

Jackaranda?

absolutely not a jackaranda.

Ok, another clue.
AZ native plant-rare but common where found.
typically diocious, but perfect flowers where populations are limited.

I find it commonly growing next to your sonoran desert plants, with ocotillo and Lycium andersoni being the most common players i find it with.

Cheers! ill put the answer up tomorrow along with some better pics.

keep hiking wrote:AZ native plant-rare but common where found.

Hmmm, that makes it interesting.

a final pic.
This one really gives it away !

I'm going to way in with: Whitehorn Acacia ... total guess..

Ah, Bursera microphylla (aka elephant tree), I think.
May be wrong, though.
We don't have those in Nevada, so I've only ever seen some at Anza-Borrego once.

@autumnstars

You may be correct... Looking a bit closer, I can almost believe I see some light, flaky bark... I've only seen them in Baja; wouldn't have thought they're so far up North. Won't be the first time I'm wrong...

@PLC92084

In the US, they are found only in the southernmost counties of Arizona and California as scattered populations.

we have a winner!
Bursera microphylla it is.
Bursera is a sapindale, and is in the same order as rutaceae, or the citrus family.
Here are some other photos i took last week while out and about.

In North Fortuna Wash in Yuma Foothills I took photos of some a couple of years ago. I guess I didn't post that hike, though.

Ahhh! I saw elephant trees at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in November. Twice.

Cannabis Sativa!



I think using the Order was misleading when saying it was related to a lemon tree, or any citrus spp. Most don't think beyond family.

@Jim_H
Kinda like a monkey and a snake are distantly related since they're both vertebrates...