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Leadtree is valued as an excellent protein source for cattle fodder, consumed browsed or harvested, mature or immature, green or dry.

The nutritive value is equal to or superior to alfalfa. Leadtree has gained a favorable reputation in land reclamation, erosion control, water conservation, reforestation and soil improvement programs, and is a good cover and green manure crop. The leaves, used as a mulch around other crops, are said to significantly increase their yields. It is said to possess the power of extracting selenium from the soil and concentrating selenium in the seed. This could be used to ameliorate seleniferous soils if the feed were discarded or used for some purpose other than feed. Seeds yield about 25 percent gum worthy of commercial investigation. Seeds after softening are strung as beans into various items of jewelry for tourists in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. In the Philippine Islands, young pods are cooked as a vegetable and seeds are used as a substitute for coffee. Ripe seeds are sometimes eaten parched like popcorn. Wood is hard and heavy (sp. gr. 0.7), the sapwood light yellow, the heartwood yellow-brown to dark brown, used for fuel or charcoal. Plants are used in some countries for shade for black pepper, coffee, cocoa, quinine, and vanilla and for hedges. 

Arborescent deciduous small tree or shrub, to 20 m tall, fast-growing; trunk 10?25 cm in diam., forming dense stands; where crowded, slender trunks are formed with short bushy tuft at crown, spreading if singly grown; leaves evergreen, alternate, 10?25 cm long, malodorous when crushed, bipinnate with 3?10 pairs of pinnae, these each with 10?20 pairs of sessile narrowly oblong to lanceolate, gray-green leaflets 1?2 cm long, less than 0.3 cm wide; flowers numerous, axillary on long stalks, white, in dense global heads 1?2 cm across; fruit pod with raised border, flat, thin, becoming dark brown and hard, 10?15 cm long, 1.6?2.5 cm wide, dehiscent at both sutures; seeds copiously produced, 15?30 per pod, oval, flattish, shining brown, 18,000?24,000 per kg; taproot long, strong, well-developed. Tree grown as an annual when harvested for forage. Fl. and fr. nearly throughout the year.

Growing Instructions

1. Scarify the seeds by sanding the seed coat. 

2. Put a mixture of potting soil and sand or perlite into a pot with drainage holes in the base. The soil should be moist and well-drained.

3. Sow the seeds on the soil.

4. Cover the seeds with a layer of soil that is 0.5 inches thick.

5. Water the seeds. Keep the soil moist but not wet.  

6. The seeds will germinate in 4-7 days. 

7. When the plants are a few inches tall, they can be transplanted.