Leucaena esculenta

Plantae — Angiospermae

Eudicotyledones 
Rosidae 
Ordo : Fabales 
Familia : Fabaceae 
Genus : Leucaena 
Species : L. esculenta 

Leucaena esculenta 
(Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) Benth.  

Leucaena esculenta (binomen a Georgio Bentham anno 1875 statutum) est arbor familiae Fabacearum, in media America sponte crescens, cuius semina ac folliculi necnon folia colliguntur comedunturque. Haec species cum cognata Leucaena leucocephala in Mexico iam ante saeculum XV domesticata est.

Bibliographia

• Diana Kennedy, Oaxaca al gusto: an infinite gastronomy (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 2010) pp. 6, 300, 304, 378, 429 (guajes, cf. guazmole)
• C. T. Sorensson, "Potential for Improvement of Leucaena through Interspecific Hybridisation" in H. M. Shelton, C. M. Piggin, J. L. Brewbaker, edd., Leucaena: Opportunities and Limitations (Camberrae, 1995) pp. 47-79
• C. T. Sorensson, J. L. Brewbaker, "Interspecific compatibility among 15 Leucaena species (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) via artificial hybridizations" in American Journal of Botany vol. 81 (1994) pp. 240–247
• Sergio Zárate, "Domestication of Cultivated Leucaena (Leguminosae) in Mexico: The Sixteenth Century Documents" in Economic Botany vol. 51 (1997) pp. 238-250 JSTOR
• Sergio Zárate, Nidia Pérez-Nasser, Alejandro Casas, "Genetics of Wild and Managed Populations of Leucaena esculenta Subsp. esculenta (Fabaceae; Mimosoideae) in La Montaña of Guerrero, Mexico" in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution vol. 52 (2005) pp. 941–957

Nexus externi

Vide "Leucaena esculenta" apud Vicispecies.

• Leucaena esculenta apud IPCN Chromosome Reports
• Leucaena esculenta apud Tropical Ferns
• Leucaena esculenta apud Agroforestry Database