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Archidendron bubalinum is a leguminous tree of lowland tropical forest in Southeast Asia, grown mainly for its edible beans and valued timber rather than as an ornamental. Care notes below apply to the tree in the wild or in a tropical garden, not as a houseplant.
Archidendron bubalinum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Trees are leguminous and produce edible beans. It is found throughout the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, where the edible seeds or beans are important locally as a side dish or as an ingredient in traditional cuisine. Many parts of the plant are used medicinally to treat various diseases by communities across its range, and the wood is valuable in traditional carpentry and architecture as a source of lumber. It was described by William Jack in 1822.
Archidendron bubalinum is native to the tropical forests of southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, but has been introduced to Myanmar, the Andaman Islands and Bangladesh. Trees are usually found growing in lowland primary and secondary forest in sandy loam or lateritic soils. They normally inhabit areas with elevations up to 100 m, but sometimes ascend to elevations of 900 m. A. bubalinum is faced with the threat of habitat loss and decreasing population due to deforestation caused by palm oil plantations.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Archidendron bubalinum 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.
