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  The Palo Verde Tree has been chosen here to represent The Roots Path for the Arizona Ramos, hence, the first topic for discussion.  

The Palo Verde (pal-oh ver-deh) is Arizona's official state tree. Palo Verde is Spanish for "green pole" or "green stick." 

Any member of the genera Cercidium and Parkinsonia, of the pea family (Fabaceae), comprising a small group of trees and shrubs scattered through the arid regions of the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and Venezuela. Three species of palo verde are native to the United States; two of them become treelike. Blue palo verde (C. floridum) is a bushy tree that grows up to 9 m (30 feet) high, found in desert areas of southern California, Arizona, and northwestern Mexico,

 

   including the Baja California peninsula. It is usually a short-trunked, intricately branched tree, with smooth, conspicuously green bark and minute leaves that fall after the rainy season. The bright-yellow flowers, borne in clusters, are followed by cylindrical, beanlike pods approximately 7.6 cm (3 inches) long. The blue palo verde is a characteristic woody plant along washes in the Colorado desert. Border palo verde (C. macrum), a Mexican tree, grows only as far north as southeastern Texas. It is readily distinguished from the blue palo verde by its flattened, podlike fruits. Mexican palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata) occurs in southwestern Arizona and from Texas to Florida. The Palo Verde Tree is one of God's most beautiful works especially in light of the sometime harsh conditions it must endure.  Like most desert  inhabitants, doing without rain fall is not uncommon yet this hearty tree finds ways to survive.  The tree is found through out our desert in Arizona along washes but can be seen in places that have little rain runoff.
The Palo Verde on the left is commonly found along washes while the Palo Verde on the right (shown here not in bloom) is found throughout our state adorning homes and public areas.  Many people shy away from this beautiful tree due to the mess it makes when its blossoms fall after a short blooming period.

 

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