Albizia procera(Roxb.) Benth.

tall albizia

WFO wfo-0000186098 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Albizia procera, photographed by Steve Fitzgerald
fig. a Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-08-17 / obs. 151380215
Albizia procera, photographed by coenobita
fig. b coenobita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31181041
Albizia procera, photographed by 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi)
fig. c 呂一起(Lyu yi-chi), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 64692359
Albizia procera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117944896
Albizia procera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 117944458
Albizia procera, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. f Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196090261
Albizia procera, photographed by Abby Darrah
fig. g Abby Darrah, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182923902
Albizia procera, photographed by Elliot Greiner
fig. h Elliot Greiner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181228551

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Albizia procera is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamWest HimalayaNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Albizia procera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Taiwan TAI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 264 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 10.4 °C 19.8 °C 23.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.1 °C 30.3 °C 40.3 °C
Annual rainfall 906 mm 1,783 mm 2,571 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 15 mm 168 mm 296 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 264 research-grade observations of Albizia procera that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia elata (Roxb.) Voigt
  • Acacia procera (Roxb.) Willd.
  • Acacia procera var. elata (Roxb.) Baker
  • Acacia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn.
  • Albizia elata (Roxb.) Benth.
  • Albizia procera var. elata (Roxb.) Baker
  • Albizia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn.
  • Feuilleea procera (Roxb.) Kuntze
  • Inga gracilis Jungh. ex Miq.
  • Inga kihian Blume ex Miq.
  • Lignum murinum-majus Rumph.
  • Mimosa coriaria Blanco
  • Mimosa elata Roxb.
  • Mimosa procera Roxb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.