Tipu tree
Tipuana tipu
HighSecondary
Fast biomass
A fast-growing shade sprinter with a light, spreading canopy - great for quick cover and chop-and-drop mulch in warm climates. Frost-shy, brittle-branched, and can self-seed into a weed.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- High
- Lifecycle
- Secondary
- Soil preference
- Loam, Sandy
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 7.5
- Min. temperature
- -6°C
- Min. rainfall
- 450 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- Low
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Fast-growing shade tree with a light, umbrella canopy; pollard or coppice regularly to control size and generate mulch.
Watch out for
[VERIFY] Legume but NOT a reliable nitrogen fixer (poor/unconfirmed nodulation, like carob) - removed nitrogen fixer tag. Frost-tender when young, brittle wood prone to limb drop, and self-seeds aggressively - considered invasive/weedy in parts of Australia and South Africa.
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