They can grow to a mature height of 13 to 18 m in 3 to 5 years. Isolated trees can achieve dbh of 50 cm. It serves well for posts and parquet flooring, and can be used for furniture and lumber. The wood is a preferred fuelwood internationally, burning slowly with little ash or smoke, and makes an excellent quality charcoal. Varieties like K636 have erect boles more suitable for timber production, which can be enhanced by close spacing and pruning.
All animals relish the foliage.
Range grazing is the most economic management, with leucaenas in rows spaced 5-8 m and grass between. Non-ruminant animals are more seriously affected by these compounds. Green manure . Growing Your Own Nitrogen is a motto that deserves wide application in the tropics, as soils become increasingly eroded and impoverished. For alley cropping, it is planted in hedgerows and coppiced at 50 to 100 cm.