Gliricidia Maculata, Gliricidia Sepium - 0.5 kg Seeds
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Gliricidia (Gliricidia sepium, syn. Gliricidia maculata) is a fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing leguminous tree from Central America, now naturalised across India as a multipurpose agroforestry species. It carries flushes of pink-mauve, pea-like flowers and is one of the most useful "fertiliser trees" for smallholders.
Widely grown in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and the Konkan, it is planted as live fence posts, support trees for pepper and vanilla, shade in plantations and a coppiced source of green-leaf manure and fuelwood. Its leaves enrich the soil and serve as fodder, while the bark and leaves have insecticidal and rodenticidal folk uses; it tolerates drought and poor soils well.
- Family: Fabaceae
- Native region: Mexico & Central America
- Mature height: 8–12 m
- Growth rate: very fast
Soak the smooth, flat seeds in water for 12–24 hours to soften the coat, then sow about 1–2 cm deep in polybags or directly in a prepared seedbed. Kept moist and warm (25–32 °C), they germinate freely in roughly 7–14 days. Grow the seedlings on in part shade and harden off for monsoon planting; established trees coppice readily and can also be raised from large stem cuttings.
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