IPIL-IPIL (Leucaena Leucocephala)

 A shrub or a tree, commonly reaching 3-15 m

tall, older trees may reach 20m tall and 50 cm
 L. in leucocephala
diameter. originated from Mexico and
Central America
 Introduced to the Philippines between 1521 and
 It1815 through one
is essentially of the annual
a tropical speciesSpanish
that requires
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warm galleons
temperature of 25 C for optimum growth,
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tolerating temperature maximum of 480C. Grows

best in areas below about 1500 m to 2000m
altitude up to 15-25 and 30 north or south of the
equator
• Used for soil improvement, soil conservation and erosion control through creating contour hedgerows or
live-barrier terraces
• Large number of roots with root nodules aid to•helpRed, fix the atmospheric
brown, and blacknitrogen
dyes areinextracted
great level.
from the
fruit pods have raised pods, leaves and bark of Ipil-ipil
borders and it is flat • In Philippines, young pods are cooked as a vegetable
and thin. It becomes • In Thailand, Mexico and Central America, young
SEEDP dark brown and hard, leaves, flowers and young pods are made into soups
ODS 10-15 cm long, and
1.6-2.5 cm wide •• Pods
and for salad
are seeds
high-protein
Roasted are usedfeed
as afor cattle in coffee
substitute
SEED • Seeds used for tablet binding
• Extracts of seeds has antidiabetic and has a board
seeds are copiously produced, 15-30 spectrum antibacterial activity
per pod, oval, flattish, and shining • Seed oil can be used as biofuel
brown • Powdered seed used for treating intestinal worms
• Trunk can be used in daily lives as
TRUNK fast growing, up to 20 m tall, grey-brown
with shallow rusty orange-brown vertical
firewood or building materials for poles,
posts, furniture or parquet flooring
fissures
• Leaves for green manure in cropping systems
leaves are evergreen and • Leaves can be used as fertilizers
LEAVES alternate. bipinnate with 4-9 pairs • Used for feed grazing or herding animals
of pinnae per leaf and 13-21 pairs • Dried leaves are used in concentrate feeds
of leaflet per pinna
FLOWE white; arranged on compact globose heads, flower heads are 12-21 mm in
diameter with 100-180 flower per head
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small, 9-21mm long, 2-4.5mm wide, linear-oblong or weakly elliptic, acute at the
LEAFL tip, rounded to obtuse at the base and glabrous except on the margins, with
ETS concave, cup-shaped, elliptic petiole gland
botanical classification
Mode of Reproduction: Sexual (pollinators)
Kingdom: Plantae Family: Fabaceae
Asexual (regeneration, self-fertilization, cutting and c
Genus: Leucaena
Class: Dicotyledonae
Species: L. leucocephala
Growth Habit: Tree
Order: Fabales
Life cycle: Perennial