Medicinal
Madero Negro
Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth
Mexico to Colombia
Fun factThe genus name Gliricidia means "mouse killer," from the Latin glis (dormouse) and caedo (to kill), a reference to the use of its seeds and leaves to poison rodents.
Madero negro is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree in the legume family, native to the seasonally dry Pacific side of Mexico and Central America. In Guanacaste it drops its leaves between December and February and flowers on the bare branches, in short clusters of pink to lilac blossoms. In Costa Rica it is widely planted as a living fence, because freshly cut stakes take root, and as a shade tree for cacao and coffee.
Sourced · see Record tab
10on the estate
0carrying a tag
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FamilyFabaceae
Spanish nameMadero negro
Also known asMexican lilac, Gliricidia, Mother of cocoa, Quick stick, Nicaraguan cacao-shade
Native toNative from Mexico through Central America to Colombia, including Costa Rica, where it grows wild especially along the seasonally dry Pacific coast.
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10 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.