Chinaberry
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Melia azedarach L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 11 m
Meliaceae
Also called White cedar, China berry, Umbrella tree, Persian lilac, Chinaberrytree
Formerly Azedarach commelinii, Azedarach deleteria, Azedarach fraxinifolia, Azedarach sempervirens, and 20 more
When it flowers
Flowers February to April and July to October in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to N. & E. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers May to June and November to January, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- French
- Lilas de Perse
- Portuguese
- Amargoseira
- Japanese
- センダン, トウセンダン, タイワンセンダン
- Chinese
- 苦楝, 森樹, 楝
- Spanish
- Árbol asiático del paraíso, Canelo asiático, Paraíso
- root
- pioch, Ittowachina, budngus
- Hebrew
- אזדרכת מצויה
- Finnish
- meelia
- Russian
- Мелия азедарах
- Czech
- melie šeříková
- Indonesian
- Mindi Kecil
- German
- Zedrachbaum
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Melia azedarach (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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