Seeds can be mechanically scarified, either by nicking the seed coat or treating with boiled water. Leucaena can be direct seeded or planted as container grown seedlings, stump cuttings or bare root seedlings. In, areas where they have not grown before, leucaenas require inoculation with specific Rhizobium in order to nodulate and grow well. Under suitable conditions, leucaenas have produced wood yields similar to the best of tropical trees. This medium hard wood serves well for posts, house-building, utensils and parquet flooring.
Charcoal is of high yield and quality.
A breakdown product of mimosine, DHP, can cause problems in ruminant animals. Leucaena can be used to color the egg yolks of poultry, due to its high content of vitamin A precursor carotenoids. However, it is not a nutritional supplement to poultry without pre-preparation. Alley farming, shade and species mixtures. The leucaenas have been model trees for alley farming, a system in which trees are planted in crop fields and managed as bedgerows.