{"product_id":"acacia-springvale-new-teak-wood-0-5-kg-seeds","title":"Acacia Springvale, New Teak Wood - 0.5 kg Seeds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcacia crassicarpa\u003c\/em\u003e, marketed in India as 'Acacia Springvale' or 'new teak wood' after its high-yielding Springvale provenance, is a fast-growing tropical timber tree. It forms a straight, clean bole with leathery, sickle-shaped phyllodes, yellow flower spikes and thick woody pods, and tolerates poor, acidic and seasonally wet soils.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is grown for short-rotation timber, plywood, pulpwood and fuelwood, and its strong, reddish-brown heartwood is used as an affordable substitute for slower-growing hardwoods, which is why it is promoted as a 'new teak'. As a nitrogen-fixing pioneer it also rehabilitates degraded land, making it popular in commercial farm-forestry and agroforestry woodlots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily: Fabaceae (Leguminosae)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNative region: northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMature height: 20-30 m\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrowth rate: very fast\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hard-coated seeds germinate readily after a hot-water treatment: pour near-boiling water over them and soak as it cools for 12-24 hours. Sow the swollen seeds about 1 cm deep in a light nursery medium; germination follows in roughly 7-14 days. Raise the seedlings in poly bags and plant out with the onset of the monsoon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vedicflora","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51051986714870,"sku":"SED-TRE-ACACIA-007","price":1059.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/4980\/6326\/files\/nurserylive-seeds-acacia-springvale-new-teak-wood-1-kg-seeds-16968547631244.jpg?v=1782714177","url":"https:\/\/vedicflora.com\/products\/acacia-springvale-new-teak-wood-0-5-kg-seeds","provider":"vedicflora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}