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Sesbania bispinosa
Also called Sesbania Pea, Prickly Sesban
Sesbania bispinosa is a fast-growing annual legume, usually 1 to 2 metres tall, grown mainly for fibre, fodder, green manure and firewood. It thrives in wet, heavy soil but also copes with drought and saline ground.
The legume Sesbania bispinosa, also known as Sesbania aculeata (Willd.) Pers., is a small tree in the genus Sesbania.
It is native to Asia and North Africa, is most common in tropical Africa where it grows as a common noxious weed, and has been introduced to the Americas. It can grow on saline soil.
The plant has a great number of uses, including as green manure, rice straw, wood and fodder.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sesbania bispinosa 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.
