Wild
Tamarind or Lead Tree (English),
Guaje (Spanish) Uaxim (Maya) Leucaena
leucocephala. Fabaceae Family. Native to Mexico.
Mayans use its branches for charcoal and firewood and for
fencing. Seeds and bark also use for healing remedies.
Grows wild in the Maya forest, grayish trunk; foliage
nutritional for feeding ruminants, bipinnate leaflets,
yellow-cream small pompom like fuzzy blooms; gives abundant
brown rusted color pendant seed pods in
May and June.
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