The leaves are used for fodder. It is grown in the sewage-irrigated greenbelt arount Khartoum, Sudan. Ayurvedics prescribe the leaf juice for eye ailments, considering the wood and bark abortifacient, anthelmintic, antipyretic, apertif, aphrodisiac, expectorant, and refrigerant. They use the wood and bark for anal disorders, blood diseases, burning sensations, dysentery, dyspepsia, leucoderma, and skin ailments. Yunani use the wood for blood disorders, burning sensations, eye and nose disorders, scabies, scalding urine, stomach problems, and syphilis.
Flowers sessile, or short-stalked in axillary panicles shorter than the leaves.
Sepals 4-5 mm long, pubescent, the lobes short. Petals yellow, 6-8 mm long. Pods to 10 cm long, 1.5 cm broad, the stipe longer than the calyx. Germplasm Reported from the Hindustani Center of Diversity, sissoo, or cvs thereof, is reported to tolerate disease, drought, frost, insects, porous soils, salt, sand, savanna, sewage, and wind. On clay soils the growth is stunted.