BOTANICAL RECORD
Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth
Gliricidia · Madre de cacao · Fabaceae
Overview
Identified and confirmed by JB.
About the illustration
Generated botanical watercolor guided by the Tropical Forages description and the collection’s illustration style. Interpretive species representation; it does not depict a photographed Odo tree or provide identification evidence.
Original ↗- Growth form
- Leguminous tree
- At Odo Valley
- Many trees planted to improve the soil
- In the library
- Local plantings
- Botanical origin in Ghana
- Introduced to Ghana
- Location
- Lower valley · Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Known date or period
- Around 2021 — about five years before September 2026
Field note
Many trees planted in the lower valley around 2021 to improve the soil. On 26 September 2026, JB reported planting them about five years earlier. Exact number, height, spacing, planting-material origin, pruning history and handling of prunings are unrecorded. This account does not establish a measured fertility gain at Odo.
Record sources 12
Sources and origins
Long-term impact of a gliricidia-maize intercropping system on carbon sequestration in southern Malawi
- Publication year
- 2007
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Preparan tamales con flor de cuchunuc
- Author or institution
- Margarita Delgado Nute / Fundación Tortilla
- Publication year
- 2023
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Interview with a traditional Zoque cook; cultural documentation, not a validated toxicological protocol.
Gliricidia sepium — Tropical Forages
- Author or institution
- Tropical Forages
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Early Cultivation of Cacao in Ancient Arenal, Costa Rica
- Publication year
- 2026
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Gliricidia sepium — Agroforestree Database 4.0
- Author or institution
- Orwa, Mutua, Kindt, Jamnadass & Simons
- Publication year
- 2009
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Gliricidia sepium — Plants of the World Online
- Author or institution
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Wound healing properties of Gliricidia sepium leaves from Indonesia and the Philippines in rats
- Publication year
- 2021
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Animal model; does not establish clinical efficacy or a safe human dose.
Atmospheric nitrogen fixation by gliricidia trees intercropped with cocoa
- Author or institution
- Kaba et al.
- Publication year
- 2019
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Ghanaian study; estimates depend on site, density and handling of prunings.
JB — Gliricidia planting in the lower valley
- Author or institution
- JB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Type
- Reported observation
- Geographic origin
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Provenance and context
- Account on 26 September 2026: many Gliricidia planted in the lower valley about five years earlier to improve the soil.
2021 is an approximation inferred from “five years”, not an exact planting date.
Gliricidia sepium — PROSEA, Auxiliary plants
- Author or institution
- PROSEA
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
New aboveground biomass and nitrogen yield in different ages of gliricidia under different pruning intensities in Ghana
- Author or institution
- Kaba & Abunyewa
- Publication year
- 2021
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26
Results from a cocoa system; intervals are not universal optima.
Gliricidia sepium — the quintessential agroforestry species
- Author or institution
- FACT Net / Winrock International
- Publication year
- 1998
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-26