Gliricidia sepium

• Botanical Name : Gliricidia sepium (Jacq) Walp.

• Gliris means 'dormouse' and Caedo means 'kill'

• Synonyms : Robinia sepium Jacq.
• Common Name : Madre Tree, The Spotted Gliricidia, Dormouse Destroyer Tree
• Plant Family : Papilionaceae
• Plant Form : Tree
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 5, 8, 11, 16, 18, 20, 28
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Basan

About Gliricidia sepium Plant :

• Habit : A small, very quick growing tree.
• Leaves : Impari pinnate, leaflets oblong, blunt at apex, covered with fine hairs, black spotted below, deciduous in winter when the tree flowers.
• Flowers :
  • Flowers on long branches with pinkish purple or pale pink clusters.
  • Calyx lobed. Corolla with large, erect, backward curving standard, 2 sickle-shaped wings and an incurving keel-petal.
• Fruit : Pod long, flat.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : February-April
• Significance : Cultivated in the gardens as an ornamental tree.