Pithecellobium dulce
It is tree, up to 15 m tall, single or multiple trunks with dense bushy crown. Trunk become gnarled with age and twigs have a pair of sharp spines at the base of the leaf stalks which are modified from stipules. Leaf is bipinnate, comprises of 2 pinnae and each pinnae has 2 leaflets.
Food (sweet pods), firewood, honey, fodder, soap oil, tannin, hedges and shade–and it can survive hostile climates. The generic name refers to the curly pod, that mimics an ape’s earring (pithekos ellobium), and the species name “dulce” refers to the sweet pod. Pithecellobium dulce (Roxb.)
