Agroforestry Services: Living fence  Management: Standard  Regional Crop

A plant of drier areas in the tropics and subtropics. Plants can only tolerate the lightest of frosts. Requires a sunny position and a well-drained soil[200 ]. Prefers a pH in the range 6 - 7.5[200 ]. Established plants are very drought tolerant[46 ]. The plant is subspontaneous and spontaneous after abandoned cultivation[317 ]. Grows in huge numbers in the dryer zones of the Caribbean Rim, where plants may reach 10 m in height and grow in dense thickets. It is so common as nearly to be a weed in the desert scrub of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao of the Netherlands Antilles, where it grows both wild and cultivated. The plants are also commonly planted around homes and gardens and are tolerated on agricultural lands, meaning that plants are left when the vegetation is cleared for agriculture.

Carbon Farming

• Agroforestry Services: Living fence  Simply managed rows of shrubs and trees.
• Management: Standard  Plants grow to their standard height. Harvest fruit, seeds, or other products. Non-Destructive management systems.
• Regional Crop  These crops have been domesticated and cultivated regionally but have not been adopted elsewhere and are typically not traded globally, Examples in this broad category include perennial cottons and many nuts and staple fruits.