Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
None once established
Mature size
8–15 m
First harvest
Pods year four
Family
Fabaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Very thorny; not a garden tree, but a fine boundary one.
Thorny, nitrogen-fixing and useful on land nobody else will plant.
Growing it
Very thorny; not a garden tree, but a fine boundary one.
What it is for
Gum, fodder and fuel; wasteland reclamation.