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Gliricidia maculata
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Gliricidia maculata is a species of fast-growing leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae, native to southeastern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. It is often considered a synonym of Gliricidia sepium and shares many of its common names and uses. It is used to provide shade for growing tea, coffee, and cocoa, as a green manure, as a forage, particularly for goats and sheep, and in living fences.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Gliricidia maculata
- Slug
- gliricidia-maculata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Gliricidia
- Species
- maculata
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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