Leucaena

The leucaena tree, Leucaena leucocephala, has been grown on coastal sandy soil in Pakistan through irrigation with saline water.

6: Soil health and plant nutrition 1996

A major pest, the psyllid, has infested leucaena stands around the world with particular susceptibility expressed by varieties of Leucaena leucocephala.

Chapter 28 1990

The survival of a number of short duration species is favored by lopping only once per year, although species such as Leucaena leucocephala and Sesbania sesban may be cut two or more times per year.

Chapter 6 1996

For trees such as Leucaena, you can leave the pods to mature on the tree.

Chapter 7 1994

Other trees such as Leucaena contain toxic compounds that can harm your animals, including ruminants, pigs and chickens.

Chapter 5 1994

The plant thrives on relatively acid, infertile soils and shows some tolerance of short-term waterlogging, conditions which are unsuitable for some of the other popular tree legumes such as Leucaena leucocephala (Chadhokar, 1982).

Chapter 3 1994

The yield differences are much less in C. calothyrsus than other tree species such as Leucaena leucocephala and Gliricidia septum, however, and are almost negligible between 13 and 17 months (Ella et al., 1991a).

Chapter 7 1994

On small crop land, you can plant trees such as Leucaena or Gliricidia to serve as live fences that separate your land from other land, and protect it from animals.

Chapter 6 1994

Foliage of other fodder trees such as Leucaena leucocephala and Albizia falcataria were eaten in much larger quantities (Raharjo and Cheeke, 1985).

Chapter 7 1994

The leaves of E. subumbrans are palatable to rabbits, although they are less well accepted than those of some other trees such as Leucaena leucocephala and Albizia falcataria (Raharjo and Cheeke, 1985).

Chapter 8 1994