[Taxacom] the Mozambique plant is Ateleia herbert-smithii

[Daniel Janzen]

The Mozambique introduced legume at 
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/unidentified-plants.php is 
Ateleia herbert-smithii, and you can see more about its natural 
history than you could ever want to know in

Janzen, D. H. 1989.  Natural history of a wind-pollinated Central American dry
forest legume tree (Ateleia herbert-smithii Pittier).  Monographs in 
Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 29:293-376.

It is native (apparently), to Colombia - now exinct there, 
apparently, to northwestern Costa Rica (where there is a healthy 
population in Sector Santa Rosa of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste), 
and Pacific Nicaragua (probably nearly gone now).  The seed for the 
plant in Mozambique (and other old world tropical sites, such as 
southern India) probably originated in the Oxford Forestry Institute 
who was giving away packets of them for growing firewood trees, seed 
source a small village in Pacific coastal Nicaragua.

The tree is wind-pollinated and dioecious and has the potential to be 
a horrible weed tree in heavily disturbed tropical dry forest 
anywhere.  Unless you want to add it to your flora, kill it, now. 
It is "controlled" in its native habitat by a seed-predator weevil 
that kills nearly all the seeds in each generation.

Hope that helps.   I can provide a pdf of the above monograph on 
request.   Dan Janzen