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African Dryland Alliance for Pesticidal Plant Technologies:

A network for optimising and promoting the use of indigenous botanical knowledge for food security and poverty alleviation in Africa

African Dryland Alliance for Pesticidal Plant Technologies

Melia azedarach (Persian lilac)

The image displays a Melia azedarach tree branch, known as Persian lilac, with pale mauve, five-petaled flowers and glossy, serrated leaves.

Meliaceae

General

Melia azedarach fact sheet (ICRAF)

Medium sized, fast growing tree. The leaves are bipinnately compound with serrated margins on the ovate leaflets. The sweetly scented flowers are borne in large many flowered, axillary inflorescences with pale lilac petals and a dark purple staminal tube. Fruits fleshy and yellowish when ripe, persisting in a wrinkled state on the tree for a long time. The seeds are poisonous. Found in disturbed ground, woodland and riverine vegetation.

Melia azedarach tree branch with pale mauve flowers and serrated leaves