Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala)[1][4] and is now naturalized throughout the tropics including parts of Asia.
Common names include jumbay, pearl wattle[citation needed] (called so because of its yellowish white hue), white leadtree,[5]river tamarind,[6][page needed]ipil-ipil,[7]tan-tan,[8] and white popinac.[9]
^Matthews, Donald Maxwell (1914). Ipil-ipil: A firewood and reforestation crop (Leucaena glauca (L.) Benth). Forestry Bureau Bulletin. Vol. 13. Manila: Bureau of Printing, Philippine Islands, Bureau of Forestry.