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Prosopis alba (Algarrobo Blanco)

Wikipedia Abstract

Prosopis alba is a South American tree species that grows in central Argentina, the Gran Chaco ecoregion, and part of the Argentine Mesopotamia, as well as Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru. It is known as algarrobo blanco in Spanish, which means "white carob tree". Spanish settlers gave it that name because of its similarity to the European carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). Other common names come from Guaraní, including ibopé and igopé.
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Infraspecies

Prosopis alba var. alba
Prosopis alba var. panta

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Janka Hardness [3]  1700 lbf (771 kgf) Medium
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [4]  0.671
Structure [2]  Tree

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de Biosfera del Chaco   Paraguay      

Predators

Phytotoma rutila (White-tipped Plantcutter)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 4Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 5Folivory in the white-tipped plantcutter Phytotoma rutila: seasonal variations in diet composition and quality, Enrique H. Bucher, Daniela Tamburini, Adriana Abril and Patricia Torres, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 34: 211–216, 2003
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0