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Adenanthera pavonina
Also called Red beadtree, Circassian Tree, Coral Tree, Beadtree, Coralwood, False Jequirity, False Red Sandalwood
In Singapore: Saga, Coral Bean Tree, Daun Tumpul, Suga, Redwood, Red Sandalwood Tree, Peacock Flower Fence, Barbados Pride, Coral Pea, Red Bead Tree, Circassian Bean, Coralwood, 相思豆, 海红豆, 孔雀豆 (Naturalised in Singapore)
1 NParks heritage tree in Singapore: Found in Singapore Botanic Gardens, near Lady on a Hammock sculpture
Red sandalwood is a medium-sized leguminous tree, native to southern Asia and northern Australia, grown for its ornamental red seeds, timber, forage and as a shade or urban tree. It is grown in warm, humid tropical climates and is sometimes invasive where introduced.
Adenanthera pavonina (red sandalwood) is a species of leguminous tree native to southern Asia and northern Australasia. Its uses include food and drink, traditional medicine, and timber.
Its native range extends from India and Sri Lanka east throughout southern Asia to southernmost China (Hainan), Indonesia, and in Australasia in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northern Australia in Northern Territory and Queensland. It has also been introduced widely within the tropics of the rest of the world, and is naturalised and sometimes invasive in the Philippines, Pakistan, and across much of tropical Africa and the tropical Americas.
This tree is useful for nitrogen fixation, and it is often cultivated for forage, as an ornamental garden plant or urban tree, and as a medicinal plant. For example, the young leaves can be cooked and eaten. The raw seeds are toxic, but may be eaten when cooked. In Singapore, the species forms part of the diet of local Raffles' banded langurs.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenanthera pavonina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
