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Prosopis ruscifolia Images

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Prosopis ruscifolia
Overgrazing and selective cutting alter the vegetation. In some areas what is used to be a forest with several tree species is now a bush/low forest, a mono-specific stand of Vinal (Prosopis ruscifolia) with no understory and bare soil.
Photograph by: Christian Ostrosky
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Prosopis ruscifolia
The huge spines of this tree can be more than 10cm long.
Photograph by: Christian Ostrosky
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