Thai Botanic · Project plant supply
Albizia lebbeck
Broad-canopy Albizia lebbeck supplied from Thailand for landscape projects. Drought and salt tolerant, for large-scale shade, windbreaks and site reclamation.
Siris, woman’s tongue · Fabaceae · Deciduous canopy tree
A fast-growing, wide-crowned shade tree that tolerates poor soil and long dry periods. Fixes nitrogen, which makes it useful on degraded or reclaimed ground where other canopy species struggle to establish.
Specification
| Mature height | 18–30 m |
|---|---|
| Crown spread | 10–20 m — broad and flat-topped (indicative) |
| Caliper range supplied | 5–22 cm standard, measured 1 m above soil level. Larger by arrangement. |
| Root-ball diameter | 100–160 cm (indicative) |
| Growth rate | Fast |
| Habit | Deciduous in a marked dry season |
| Flowering | Fragrant cream-white powderpuff heads, followed by long flat pods |
Landscape use
Large-scale shade, windbreaks, roadside and boundary planting, and site reclamation. The flat spreading crown covers a lot of ground quickly, which is the main reason to specify it.
The long seed pods hang through the dry season and rustle in wind, which is part of its character in open landscape. It establishes readily, so it suits naturalistic and large-scale schemes particularly well.
Site tolerance
| Drought | High |
|---|---|
| Salinity | Moderate — used in coastal shelterbelts (indicative) |
| Wind | Moderate — fast growth gives weak branch unions |
| Soil | Very wide range, including poor, shallow and saline-affected soils |
| Heat | High |
| USDA zone | 10–12 |
Export notes
Supplied root-balled and wrapped. Lifting is timed to the tree’s dormancy and the destination’s import window. Phytosanitary certification accompanies every shipment. See export and compliance, and how the root ball is built, wrapped and loaded for the container on our nursery site.
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For available sizes and current stock in this species, message us on WhatsApp at +66 93 425 9892 or email contact@thaibotanic.com — or browse the species catalogue. This is one of the species we grow and supply regularly. If you are working to a programme, send the planting schedule and we will plan lifting and shipping around it. Where a design calls for something outside our usual range, we source it through the nursery network we have worked with for years, given reasonable notice.
Supply grades
| Grade | Overall height | Clear trunk | Spread | Caliper (min) | Grown in | Root ball |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small | 1500 mm | 1000 mm | 750 mm | 30 mm | 25 L | 100% coco peat |
| Medium | 3000 mm | 1500 mm | 1500 mm | 60 mm | 150 L | 100% coco peat |
| Large | 5000 mm | 2500 mm | 2500 mm | 120 mm | 300 L | 30% cleaned soil / 70% coco peat |
| Extra large | 6000 mm | 2500 mm | 3500 mm | 150 mm | 1000 L | 30% cleaned soil / 70% coco peat |