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Family: Meliaceae	Genus: Melia	Species: Melia azedarach Linn.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Azedarach commelinii Medik., Azedarach odoratum Noronha, Azedarach sempervirens Kuntze	Flower Color	Blue - Purple
Common Name	Bakain, Drek,Dainkan	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Chinaberry Tree, Indian Lilac, Borbedos Lilac	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Bakain	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Upto 1200 m	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	The fruit is a drupe, marble-sized, light yellow at maturity, hanging on the tree all winter, and gradually becoming wrinkled and almost white
Habitat	Commonly found in road sides, parks, forests edges	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	China, Japan, The Indian Sub-continent, South-eastern Asia and large parts of northern and Eastern Australia	Bark Details	Smooth bark smooth, greenish-brown when young
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Sector 1, Sector 10, Sector 26, Sector 29, Sector 39, Sector 43, Sector 44, Sector 46, Sector 50, Sector 54, Sector 56	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Bi-pinnate
Description of Species	Deciduous trees up to 10 m high. Leaves 2 (3) pinnate, 20 – 30 cm long, leaflets 3 – 11, subopposite, ovate lanceolate, 1.5 – 4.5 cm long, acuminate. Flowers lilac – blue, sweet scented, in branched clusters of loose panicles. Calyx 5 – fid, oblong – lanceolate. Petals shortly ciliate, linear to spathulate. staminal column ca 5 – 6 mm long, purple. Ovary 5 – celled, glabrous. Drupes yellow and plump when ripe, 1.2 – 1.6 cm long, globose or ellipsoid, wrinkled in the later stages, 5 – seeded or less by abortion. seeds apiculate, red – brown	Leaf Details	Leaves 2 (3) pinnate, 20 – 30 cm long, leaflets 3 – 11, subopposite, ovate lanceolate, 1.5 – 4.5 cm long, acuminate

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