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Screening of medicinal plants for bioactive compounds leads to the development of less expensive new antimicrobial agent with improved safety and efficacy. Parkinsonia aculeata (Linn) is a multipurpose tree with multiple health benefits. Parkinsonia aculeata is spiny tree belonging to the family Fabaceae. The common names for Parkinsonia aculeata are Mexican palo verde, Parkinsonia, Jerusalem thorn, Jellibean tree. This plant shows many reported activities such as antioxidant, anticancer, anti diabetic, anti-inflammatory. Different parts of plant show to exhibit antimicrobial effect against a wide variety of microorganisms but there is not any reported antimicrobial activity of root extract of Parkinsonia aculeata. The present work aims to study the antimicrobial activity of root extract of Parkinsonia aculeata by cup plate method. It determines the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and suggest that aqueous extract of Parkinsonia aculeata root exhibit more significant antimicrobial activity against various microbes/ bacteria at 2000 ug/ml concentration.