Palo verde beetles are commonly found in regions with arid or semi-arid climates, including Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.

The blue palo verde can reach up to 30 feet in height and provides habitat for many native animals. It also has lovely flowers in the spring. Doug Kreutz, Arizona Daily Star Dominika Heusinkveld ...

Palo verde beetles are known as root borers. The females lay eggs in the soil 2 to 3 inches deep near host trees — typically palo verde trees and similar plants.

In the Tonto National Forest, more than 14,000 acres of Arizona land, including palo verde trees, mesquite trees, and saguaros, are up in flames. Challie Facemire, with the Desert Botanical Garden ...

Twila Cassadore demonstrates how the seeds are harvested from palo verde trees during a tour for the Society of Environmental Journalists conference on April 25, 2025, at Papago Park in Phoenix.

• Palo verde trees, chollas and other desert-dwelling species have adapted in a way that allows them to lose twigs, branches or arms while remaining alive.

Currently, SRP offers six types of desert-adapted trees that thrive in Phoenix’s dry, harsh heat: desert willow, lilac chaste, native mesquite, palo verde, thornless mesquite and willow acacia.

How to decorate trees with Christmas lights Palo Verde and mesquite trees are common in Arizona, and they are also great to wrap with lights thanks to their long branches.

In the late 1970s, Mark Dimmit with the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum noticed how easily the local Palo Verde trees hybridized. They were the fast-growing Blue P.V., C. floridum, with bluish-green ...