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Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit

Leguminosae

SE North America (Mexico: Yucatán?) int South America, S Eurasia, Africa (tropics) and N Oceania (New Guinea, Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii)

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sci->hel hyg? mes->xer neut->basi calc sili

dr fd (honey) fr (fodder for horses, seed) fw (charcoal and oil with mooted seeds, fuel) ma (beads made with seeds) pl (ornamental, quick set edge) pp (paper pulp) sa (agricultural shade, anti-erosion, fertilizer, green manure, soil improvement because of nitrogen fixation, windbreaks) ti (boxes, building piles, fence posts, interior construction, light construction, poles, tutors) tx (leaves, nuts mixed with other foods are toxic for ruminants)

Acacia biceps Willd. Acacia frondosa Willd. Acacia glauca Willd. Acacia leucocephala (Lam.) Link Acacia portoricensis Bello non (Jacq.) Willd. Leucaena glauca Benth. Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gillis & Stearn Mimosa glauca L. Mimosa leucocephala Lam.

white leadtree; cowbush (Bahamas); cowbush leucaena, false koa, horse tamarind; jimbay, jumbay (Bahamas); jumbie bean; jump and go (Bahamas); lead tree (Jamaica); leadtree, leucaena; shack-shack (Trinidad); tantan, timbay, trembie bearn, trembie bearn leucaena; West Indies mimosa (Trinidad); white popinac, whitepopinac leadtree, wild mimosa, wild taman, wild tamarind

leucéna glauque; banglin, bois bourro; bois-lolo (Guadeloupe); graines de lin, graines de lin pays; grains de lin pays (Haiti); leucaena, leucaena glauque, leucaena macata; macata (Guadeloupe); macata-bourse, manger-cabrit; monval (Guadeloupe); tamarin bâtard, tchia-tchia; tchia-tchia marron (Haiti); tchia-tchio, zing zing

acacia (Puerto Rico); acacia bella rosa (Colombia); acacia blanca, acacia forrajera (Colombia); acacia palida, acacia paloda (Puerto Rico); acacra forrajera, acara blanca (Colombia); arbol de plomb, arbol de plomo (Costa Rica); aroma blanca, aroma blanco, aroma boba, aroma mansa, aromaboba (Cuba); barba de león (Guatemala); carbonero, carbonero blanco (Colombia); chajal (Mexico); chamba (Bolivia); chapre, gigante (Ecuador); granadillo bobo, granadino, granolino (Hispaniola); guaje (Honduras, Mexico); guaje de Castilla (Mexico); hediondilla (Puerto Rico); huaje (Mexico); ipil-ipil (Ecuador); lambtoro, lesena; leucaena (Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua); leucaena guaje (Mexico); leucana (Colombia); leucena (Nicaragua); lino, lino criollo (Hispaniola); macata blanca (Martinique); panelo (Colombia); quarcilla (Puerto Rico); rompeviento (Nicaragua); shack-shack (Trinidad); sipia (Honduras); tamarindillo (Puerto Rico); tantan (Colombia, Nicaragua); tembladera (Cuba); zarcilla (Puerto Rico)

chajlib, chashi (Mexico); ekoa; gin-nemu (Okinawa); huashi, huatsin (Mexico); ipil-ipil (Philippines, Sri Lanka); ipilipil (India); kagavai; kemlandingan (Indonesia); kiulilac (totonaco); koa-haole (Hawaii); ku-babul (India); lamtora, lamtora gung (Indonesia); leleques (Mexico); lisina ti fèy (creole, Haiti); lusina (Tanzania); mimosa (Netherlands Antilles); natlucavundad, natlucavundal; pacapaca (zoque); petai belalang (Sabah); su-babul, subabul (India); tagavari; talntangan, tangan tangan, tangantangan (chamorro, Micronesia); tantan (Netherlands Antilles); telentund (palauan, Micronesia); tumbarabu (Netherlands Antilles); uaxi, uaxim (Mexico); umi (Sri Lanka); xaxim (maya); yaje (Mexico)

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Latin name	Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SE North America (Mexico: Yucatán?) int South America, S Eurasia, Africa (tropics) and N Oceania (New Guinea, Philippines, Indonesia, Micronesia, Hawaii)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S[M]
Foliage	E[D]
Ecology	sci->hel hyg? mes->xer neut->basi calc sili
Use	dr fd (honey) fr (fodder for horses, seed) fw (charcoal and oil with mooted seeds, fuel) ma (beads made with seeds) pl (ornamental, quick set edge) pp (paper pulp) sa (agricultural shade, anti-erosion, fertilizer, green manure, soil improvement because of nitrogen fixation, windbreaks) ti (boxes, building piles, fence posts, interior construction, light construction, poles, tutors) tx (leaves, nuts mixed with other foods are toxic for ruminants)
Synonym	Acacia biceps Willd. Acacia frondosa Willd. Acacia glauca Willd. Acacia leucocephala (Lam.) Link Acacia portoricensis Bello non (Jacq.) Willd. Leucaena glauca Benth. Leucaena latisiliqua (L.) Gillis & Stearn Mimosa glauca L. Mimosa leucocephala Lam.
English name	white leadtree; cowbush (Bahamas); cowbush leucaena, false koa, horse tamarind; jimbay, jumbay (Bahamas); jumbie bean; jump and go (Bahamas); lead tree (Jamaica); leadtree, leucaena; shack-shack (Trinidad); tantan, timbay, trembie bearn, trembie bearn leucaena; West Indies mimosa (Trinidad); white popinac, whitepopinac leadtree, wild mimosa, wild taman, wild tamarind
French name	leucéna glauque; banglin, bois bourro; bois-lolo (Guadeloupe); graines de lin, graines de lin pays; grains de lin pays (Haiti); leucaena, leucaena glauque, leucaena macata; macata (Guadeloupe); macata-bourse, manger-cabrit; monval (Guadeloupe); tamarin bâtard, tchia-tchia; tchia-tchia marron (Haiti); tchia-tchio, zing zing
Spanish name	acacia (Puerto Rico); acacia bella rosa (Colombia); acacia blanca, acacia forrajera (Colombia); acacia palida, acacia paloda (Puerto Rico); acacra forrajera, acara blanca (Colombia); arbol de plomb, arbol de plomo (Costa Rica); aroma blanca, aroma blanco, aroma boba, aroma mansa, aromaboba (Cuba); barba de león (Guatemala); carbonero, carbonero blanco (Colombia); chajal (Mexico); chamba (Bolivia); chapre, gigante (Ecuador); granadillo bobo, granadino, granolino (Hispaniola); guaje (Honduras, Mexico); guaje de Castilla (Mexico); hediondilla (Puerto Rico); huaje (Mexico); ipil-ipil (Ecuador); lambtoro, lesena; leucaena (Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua); leucaena guaje (Mexico); leucana (Colombia); leucena (Nicaragua); lino, lino criollo (Hispaniola); macata blanca (Martinique); panelo (Colombia); quarcilla (Puerto Rico); rompeviento (Nicaragua); shack-shack (Trinidad); sipia (Honduras); tamarindillo (Puerto Rico); tantan (Colombia, Nicaragua); tembladera (Cuba); zarcilla (Puerto Rico)
Other name	chajlib, chashi (Mexico); ekoa; gin-nemu (Okinawa); huashi, huatsin (Mexico); ipil-ipil (Philippines, Sri Lanka); ipilipil (India); kagavai; kemlandingan (Indonesia); kiulilac (totonaco); koa-haole (Hawaii); ku-babul (India); lamtora, lamtora gung (Indonesia); leleques (Mexico); lisina ti fèy (creole, Haiti); lusina (Tanzania); mimosa (Netherlands Antilles); natlucavundad, natlucavundal; pacapaca (zoque); petai belalang (Sabah); su-babul, subabul (India); tagavari; talntangan, tangan tangan, tangantangan (chamorro, Micronesia); tantan (Netherlands Antilles); telentund (palauan, Micronesia); tumbarabu (Netherlands Antilles); uaxi, uaxim (Mexico); umi (Sri Lanka); xaxim (maya); yaje (Mexico)
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