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["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

I always like to leverage off the knowledge of others, rather than learning 
from scratch by myself.  Do you know of any way to obtain seed for Prosopis 
cineraria?   Do you have friends among the  Bisnoi (Bishnois?)?  

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marimike6@cs.com 
  To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:42 AM
  Subject: Re: [permaculture] Prosopis cineraria


  Thanks for getting me going on this subject, Mitch. Turns out that P. 
  cineraria is a pretty fine tree for places like your central Texas (dry and 
  alkaline). It fixes nitrogen, makes great fodder, can be utilized in 
apiculture (honey 
  production), stabilizes loose sand, cools the soil, makes good fence posts 
and 
  house timbers and provides vegetables for the pot. Sorghum and millet 
benefit 
  from its shade, and it is thought to confer soil fertility. It's salt and 
  drought tolerant.

  Sounds like the vegetable version of the shmoo-- that old Al Capp invention 
  that laid eggs, tasted like chicken when fried or beef when roasted, and 
jumped 
  into the pan on request.

  They haven't found good ways to propagate it outside its native habitat 
yet. 
  But it puts forth copious seeds and might be a good subject for study and 
  experiment.

  http://v1.winrock.org/forestry/factpub/factsh/p_cineraria.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khejri
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