Acacia mangium trees planted in 1993 in Xiamen region, Fujian, showed that the growth rate and aboveground biomass were higher than those of A. cunninghamia and A. auriculaeformis. The annual litter-fall of 4-year-old trees of A. mangium and A. auriculaeformis were 1 150 g m-2 and 668 g m-2, respectively. Seasonal variation of nitrogenase activity in nodules of A. mangium and A. cunninghamia was obvious and was in the order August>October>May>February. The phyllodes of A. mangium were found to contain