Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia)
Identity
- Preferred Scientific Name
- Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Walp.
- Preferred Common Name
- gliricidia
- Other Scientific Names
- Galedupa pungam Blanco
- Gliricidia lambii Fernald
- Gliricidia maculata (Kunth) Walp.
- Lonchocarpus roseus (Miller) DC.
- Lonchocarpus sepium (Jacq.) DC.
- Millettia luzonensis A. Gray
- Robinia maculata Kunth
- Robinia rosea Miller
- Robinia sepium Jacq.
- Robinia variegata Schltdl.
- International Common Names
- EnglishMexican lilacmother of cacaoNicaraguan cocoashadequickstick
- Spanishmadero negromadre cacaomadre de cacaomadriadomadricacaomata ratonnacedero
- Chinesege li dou
- Portuguesemãe-do-cacauplanta-mãe-do-cacau
- Local Common Names
- Brazilmata-ratos
- Colombiamata-ratón
- Costa Ricabalabalomadero negrosangre de drago
- Cubaamor y celosarbol de la niñabien vestidadesnudo florecidesnudo florecidoflorescogibaramata ratónpasiónpiñón amorosopiñón de costapiñón floridopiñón jazmínpiñón milagrosopiñón violentapiñón vómico
- Dominican Republicpiñón de Cuba
- El Salvadorpalo de hierro
- Guadeloupegliceridiagliricidia
- Guatemalacacaguanancecacahuananchecansímmadre de cacaomadrecacaomadriadomadrialmata-ratón
- Guyanaquick stick
- Haitililas étranger
- Indonesiagamal
- Indonesia/Javaliriksidia
- JamaicaAaron’s rodgrow stickquick stickSt.Vincent plum
- Laoskhê fàlangxkhê nooyzkh'è: fàlangxkh'è: no:yz
- Malaysiabunga jepun
- Mexicocacaguanancecacahuananchecacahuananochantecocoitecuchunucflor de San Joséfrijolilloguie-niizaiaitijeleltelipa-ca-sui-lamadre de cacaomadrecacaomadriadomata-ratónmuitemuitipalo de corralprimaverasacyabsayabsayuiabtundutiujcumxakyaabyaga-leyaite
- Netherlands Antillesratónerayerba di tonka
- Nicaraguamadera negra
- Nigeriaabgook maniye
- Panamabalabalomadero negro
- Philippinesbalok-balokcacautekakauatikak-auátikakawatemadre de cacaomadrecacaomadriadomadrial
- Saint Luciamother of cocoa
- Thailandkhae farangkhae-farang
- Trinidad and TobagoNicaragua cocoa shade
- United States Virgin Islandspea tree
- Vietnamanh d[af]o g[is]lah[oo]ng maihông maisát thu
- West Indies Associated Statesratónerayerba di tonka
- EPPO code
- GLRSE (Gliricidia sepium)
Pictures
Habit
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); habit. Shibuya Farm Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. June 2011.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Habit
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); habit, showing a very large specimen. Anini Beach, Kauai, Hawaii, USA. March 2013.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Leaves
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); leaves. Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 2007.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Leaves
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); leaves. Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 2007.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Bark
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); bark. Cultivated in the cerrado - SQN 204 Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. September 2011.
©João Medeiros/via flickr - CC BY 2.0
Flowers
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); flowers and leaves. Shibuya Farm Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. June 2011.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Flowers and leaves
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); flowers and leaves. Shibuya Farm Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. June 2011.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Seed pods
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); ripening seed pods. India. March 2009.
©Dinesh Valke/via flickr - CC BY-SA 2.0
Habit
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); used as a live fence. (also known as ‘quickstick tree’). Kioko village, northern Buton Island, Indonesia. October 2013.
Public Domain - Released by David E. Mead/via wikipedia - CC0 1.0
Flowers and foliage
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); flowers and foliage. Spreckelsville, Maui, Hawaii, USA. January 2007.
©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0
Habit
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); small tree (ca.5m tall), showing tolerance of semi-arid conditions. Puebla, Mexico.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Fodder tree
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); as a fodder tree. Nigeria.
©ICRAF
Live fences
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); often grown in live fences with trees managed by regular pollarding. Chiapas, Mexico.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Live fence
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); used as a live fence. Chamelecon, Honduras.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Shade trees
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); cultivated for shade over coffee and bananas, Chiquimula, Guatemala.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Flowers
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); flowers.
©ICRAF
Alley cropping
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); alley farming with hedgerows of G. sepium, intercropped with maize and beans. Comayagua, Honduras.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Flowers
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); typical pink papilionoid legume flowers.
©Colin Hughes, Dept. Plant Sciences, Univ. Oxford
Seeds on tree
Collection of seeds from tree in Honduras
©ICRAF
Seed pods
Gliricidia sepium (gliricidia); ripe seed pods.
©ICRAF
Distribution
Prevention and Control
G. sepium withstands fire well by quickly resprouting after damage. No precise information on the control of G. sepium is available, but because of its popularity as an agroforestry tree, biological control methods could conflict with the interests of commercial plantings, and would therefore have to focus on limiting the potential of the plant to set seed.
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Published online: 4 October 2022
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