Neem
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Source: Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (syn. Melia azadirachta L.) (Family Meliaceae).
Common/vernacular names: Neem/Margos tree.
Large tree, up to 50 ft tall. Leaves simple, pinnately compound 16–20 cm long, crowded near the end of branches, leaflets subopposite, obliquely lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate, serrate, glabrous on both the surfaces, base unequal, acute. Flowers in branched glabrous panicles, with bract. Bracts minute, lanceolate, caduceus. Calyx pueblos divided at the base. Corolla oblong–obovate, slightly puberlous outside, white, slightly fragrant. Fruits a drupe, ca. 1.5 cm long, glabrous, one-seeded.
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