Scientific Name
Melia azadarach

Common Name
Chinaberry

Hardiness Zones: 7-10
Habit: Deciduous
Growth Rate: Rapid
Site Requirements: Sun; wide range of soil types
Texture: Medium
Form: Rounded crown; stiff coarse branches
Height: 30 to 40’
Width: 30 to 40’
Leaf: 12 to 24" alternate, bipinnately compound leaves; yellow green fall color
Flower/Fruit: 8 to 16" panicle of lavender lilac fragrant flowers in early summer; .4 to .5" yellow fruit with a hard seed; ripens in fall and persists till spring
Comments: Considered a weedy tree; fruit eaten by birds; weak wood
Cultivars: Jade Snowflake
 



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