Thai Botanic · Project plant supply
Pongamia pinnata
Pongamia pinnata supplied from Thailand for landscape projects. Salt-hardy, nitrogen-fixing shade tree for streets, car parks and coastal roads.
Indian beech, karanja · Fabaceae · Semi-evergreen canopy tree
Also traded as Millettia pinnata.
Glossy foliage on a dense rounded crown, with pale lilac pea flowers in spring. Nitrogen-fixing, salt-hardy and notably tolerant of poor and coastal ground — increasingly specified across the Gulf as a dependable street and shade tree.
Specification
| Mature height | 10–20 m |
|---|---|
| Crown spread | 8–15 m — dense and rounded |
| Caliper range supplied | 5–22 cm standard, measured 1 m above soil level. Larger by arrangement. |
| Root-ball diameter | 80–150 cm (indicative) |
| Growth rate | Moderate to fast |
| Habit | Semi-evergreen; brief leaf change in the dry season |
| Flowering | Pale lilac to white pea flowers, lightly scented |
Landscape use
Street and avenue planting, car parks, coastal roads, shelterbelts and land reclamation. The dense crown gives good shade at a manageable scale, and it holds up in urban and seafront conditions.
Because it fixes nitrogen it establishes well on poor and depleted ground, which makes it useful as a first planting on new or reclaimed sites.
Site tolerance
| Drought | High once established |
|---|---|
| Salinity | High — coastal and saline soils |
| Wind | High |
| Soil | Very wide range including poor, sandy, saline and periodically wet soils |
| Heat | Very high |
| USDA zone | 10–12 |
Export notes
Supplied root-balled and wrapped, crown-reduced for loading. Robust in transit. 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.
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 | 2000 mm | 1800 mm | 500 mm | 30 mm | 100 L | 100% coco peat |
| Medium | 3000 mm | 2000 mm | 1000 mm | 50 mm | 200 L | 100% coco peat |
| Large | 4000 mm | 2000 mm | 2000 mm | 80 mm | 300 L | 100% coco peat |
| Extra large | 5000 mm | 2000 mm | 3000 mm | 100 mm | 500 L | 30% cleaned soil / 70% coco peat |