In homesteads Leaves, flowers and fruits are all used as vegetable. The plant is a good source of fodder especially during drought.
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uses
Leaves, flowers and fruits are all used as vegetable. The plant is a good source of fodder especially during drought.
family
Fabaceae
synonym
Agati coccinea (L. f.) Desv., Robinia grandiflora L.
description
Small trees; branchlets terete, pubescent. Leaves paripinnate, alternate, 18-30 cm long; leaflets 12-25 pairs, 1.5- × 3.5 0.6-1.2 cm, oblong, base rounded, apex obtuse, emarginate, glabrous to appressed-pubescent on both surfaces. Flowers in axillary, raceme, to 8 cm long, lax, 2-4 flowered. Flowers 7.5-10 cm as long, pendulous; pedicels to 2 cm long. Pers. Calyx 2-3 cm long, campanulate; lobes triangular. Corolla pink or white, 7.5-10 × cm long; standard to 10 6 cm, reflexed. Stamens diadelphous 9+1; anthers uniform, dorsifixd. Pods 30-40 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, slender, falcate or straight; seeds ca. 30, reddish brown.
native range
Tropical Asia to Australia
distribution
Widespread in humid tropical regions of the World to