White leadtree
सुबबूलஇபில்-இபில்సుబాబుల్
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 8.7 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Coffee Bush, White Popinac, Koa haole, Leucaena
Formerly Acacia leucocephala, Mimosa leucocephala
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to C. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS EDIS, one source
- Height
- 5.9 m to 11 mRead from Wikipedia and UF/IFAS Plant Directory, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 7–18 m; UF/IFAS Plant Directory 16–16 ft
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS Plant Directory, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from UF/IFAS EDIS and UF/IFAS Plant Directory, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Hawaiian
- koa haole, ekoa
- Catalan
- Aromer blanc
- Spanish
- Tepeguaje dormilón, Guaje blanco, Ipil-ipil
- root
- kiulilac, pacapaca, Bonaramantsina
- myn
- uaxim
- Indonesian
- Lamtoro
- Chinese
- 銀合歡, 金丝刷, 灰金合歡
- Russian
- Леуцена светлоголовчатая
- Portuguese
- Leucena
- Estonian
- harilik leukeena
- Chinese (China)
- 银合欢
- Japanese
- ギンネム, ギンゴウカン
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS EDIS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- UF/IFAS Plant Directory, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Leucaena leucocephala (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.