Pithecellobium dulce

Manila tamarind, Madras thorn · Fabaceae · Semi-evergreen tree

A tough, wide-crowned tree that establishes on ground where little else will — saline, compacted, poor and dry. Not the most refined tree in the catalogue, and specified for exactly that reason: it survives conditions that kill better-looking species.

Specification

Landscape use

Reclamation and difficult-site planting, coastal shelterbelts, perimeter and boundary screening, and shade on land with poor or saline soil. A workhorse rather than a feature tree.

Grown on with a clear stem it works well beside circulation, and the thorns suit it to boundary and security planting. It establishes very readily, which is what makes it dependable on reclaimed and difficult ground — worth confirming your destination’s planting guidance for volume schemes.

Site tolerance

Export notes

Supplied root-balled and wrapped. Robust in transit compared with more sensitive species. Phytosanitary certification accompanies every shipment. See export and compliance, and how the root ball is built, wrapped and loaded for the container on our nursery site.

For available sizes and current stock in this species, message us on WhatsApp at +66 93 425 9892 or email contact@thaibotanic.com — or browse the species catalogue. This is one of the species we grow and supply regularly. If you are working to a programme, send the planting schedule and we will plan lifting and shipping around it. Where a design calls for something outside our usual range, we source it through the nursery network we have worked with for years, given reasonable notice.

Supply grades