Leucaena leucocephala

Local Name: Pokok Petai Belalang

Scientific Name:  Leucaena leucocephala

Family:  Leguminosae

Origin/Habitat: This plant can be easily found in bushes are and forest edge

Details: Its fruits seems like a small size of petai

Uses: Thickens hair, treat eye infections, diarrhoea, poisonous bite, gallstones and high blood pressure. Used also for chicken pox and mange through the ashes of the burned leaves. The mixture of punch raw rice and the leaves may used to heal cough by putting it on neck. The fruit of this plant is used for gallstones, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Breeding: Seeds

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