Product Description
Product Description
Botanic description Leucaena diversifolia is a tree or erect shrub, 3-20 m tall, with a single-stemmed bole 20-50 cm in diameter, slender and clear up to 10 m in height, ascending branches with horizontal twigs. Bark on young branches smooth, rougher on bole, grey-brown with shallow rusty orange-brown vertical fissures; slash green then cream. Leaves with (min. 14) 16-24 (max. 28) pairs pinnae; pinnular rachis (min. 3.5) 5-7 (max. 8) cm long, densely covered with white hairs; leaflets (min. 2.9) 4-5.5 (max. 7) mm long, (min. 0.6) 0.8-1 (max. 1.2) mm wide, (min. 43) 48-58 (max. 62) pairs per pinna, linear-oblong, acute at apex, strongly asymmetric at base, glabrous except for hairy margins. Flower heads 11-15 mm in diameter, the buds loosely packed; 45-90 flowers per head, in groups of 1-5 (max. 7) in leaf axils, on actively growing indeterminate shoots, the leaves developing with flowers; stamen filaments, anthers and style white, pale pink, sometimes bright shocking pink, and occasionally bright scarlet; anthers sparsely hairy at the tip. Pods 1-6 (max. 7) per flower head, (min. 7) 10-13 (max. 15.5) cm long, (min. 11) 13-16 (max. 17) mm wide, narrowly linear-oblong, flat 6-20-seeded, pod walls thin, papery dark brown or reddish-brown, sometimes lustrous, glabrous or covered in dense velvety hairs, opening along both sides. Seeds 4.3-5.5 mm wide, 2.7-3.4 mm long; the smallest of any species of Leucaena. The specific name ‘diversifolia’ means ‘with leaves of different shapes on the same individual’; from the Latin ‘diversus’ (divergent) and ‘folium’ (leaf).