Plant Profile

Melia azedarach (Chinaberry, Bead tree)

Chinaberry is a highly invasive tree with  toxic berries.  A rounded, deciduous tree bears  thousands of tiny, lilac-pink, star-shaped sweet scented  flowers . The leaves are bi-pinnate and turns yellow in the fall. Bees and other insects are visiting the flowers. Because the fruits are so tasty to birds (but poisonous to humans), the seeds are quickly spread.It grows well in any soil in any condition. Takes salt, drought and heat very well. With all of its leaf and fruit litter, it is not an ideal street tree.

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  • By Paolo Fisicaro (photo) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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  • By Paolo Fisicaro (photo) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Vassil (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Scott Zona (http://flickr.com/photos/scottzona/2433928235/) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By J.M.Garg (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By J.M.Garg (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Daderot (Own work (I took this photograph)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
By Paolo Fisicaro (photo) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

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