#desert trees

Seed Dispersal by Way of Tree Climbing Goats

Goats are surprisingly good climbers. Given the opportunity, they’ll climb just about anything, including each other. So what’s stopping them from climbing a tree, especially if there is something up there they can eat? And so they do. Tree climbing goats are such a fascinating sight, they even have their own calendar. But the story doesn’t end there. The goats find food in the trees,…

Arizona has a lot of brown. It's not known for greenery. Even green plants end up brown it seems (like the grass, it's not dead just brown now) but as spring begins to blossom here I was looking around and I noticed a lot of yellow! A majority of our plants blossom yellow flowers.

Anyways post two is about trees! There are tons of species of trees in Arizona, both native and introduced, but I am only going to cover a few that are easily accessible and identifiable.

This blog gives some desert witchcraft love!

The Palo Verde tree(both Parkinsonia florida or blue palo verde and Parkinsonia microphylla or yellow palo verde) is our state tree. In high school we hosted an exchange student from Japan that said that the Palo Verde tree looked like the Arizona version of the cherry blossom! Collect the flowers in spring for love spells, or the dries seeds in summer for growth. The tree it's self is green all year round and can be used in abundance spells!

🌳 love, growth, life, abundance

There are 40 varieties of the genus prosopis leguminous commonly known as Misquite. It blooms from spring until summer creating fluffy flowers and pods that look like green beans. Used with healing and creativity spells. Pods and flowers can be used with growth, prosperity, or love spells. By the end of summer the ground near a misquite tree is littered with the now brown pods, these can be used in curses or hexes.

🌴 healing, creativity, growth, prosperity, love

Willow Acacia, Acacia Salicina, is an Australian native tree that thrives in the Sonora desert. It grows very quickly, up to 25 cm a year, and is not actually part of the willow genus. It is called willow for its weeping appearance. There was one in my friends backyard growing up, it was huge and beautiful, but one monsoon season it's roots were damaged and had to be taken down for fear of crushing the small house (this thing had to have been 100 feet tall, it was triple the size of the house we even built a tree house in it!) Due to its quick growth it is ideal in growth spells. It works well in place of spells needing Willow or Acacia.

🌳 growth, protection, healing

👐 please if you use parts of a live tree, be kind and try to take parts about fall off. You can kill trees, any plant really, if you take too much from it. Respect nature and it will be kind to you 👐