James A. Duke. Handbook of Energy Crops. The tree is widely planted as shade for chocolate, coffee, tea, and vanilla. The timber is said to finish smoothly and be used for furniture, agricultural instruments, posts, railroad ties, and heavy construction.
Flowers are a good source of forage for bees.
Flowers are consumed by Mexican rural inhabitants who use the pods for rat poison. In the Philippines, the foetid leaves are crushed and rubbed onto cattle. In Indonesia, the tree is planted as a firebreak. This and other fast-growing leguminous trees have the vigor to outgrow or compete with the Imperata grass. According to Roskoski et al.