Melia azedarachL.

Chinaberry

WFO wfo-0000450150 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Melia azedarach, photographed by Joseph Aubert
fig. a Joseph Aubert, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205690428
Melia azedarach, photographed by Ben Costamagna
fig. b Ben Costamagna, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202201557
Melia azedarach, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. c Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204673906
Melia azedarach, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. d Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201196058
Melia azedarach, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. e Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 203482334
Melia azedarach, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204671003
Melia azedarach, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204674644

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Flowering n = 1,340 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,340 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 45 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Azedara speciosa Raf.
  • Azedarach commelini Medik.
  • Azedarach deleteria Medik.
  • Azedarach fraxinifolia Moench
  • Azedarach odoratum Noronha
  • Azedarach sempervirens (L.) Kuntze
  • Azedarach sempervirens (L.) Otto & A.Dietr.
  • Azedarach sempervirens f. incisodentata Kuntze
  • Azedarach sempervirens f. longifoliola Kuntze
  • Azedarach sempervirens f. subdentata Kuntze
  • Azedarach sempervirens var. glabrior Kuntze
  • Melia aethiopica Welw.
  • Melia angustifolia Schumach. & Thonn.
  • Melia arguta DC.
  • Melia australasica Juss.
  • Melia australis Sweet
  • Melia azedarach f. umbraculifera (G.W.Knox) Rehder
  • Melia azedarach var. australasica DC.
  • Melia azedarach var. glabrior C.DC.
  • Melia azedarach var. intermedia (Makino) Makino
  • Melia azedarach var. sempervirens L.
  • Melia azedarach var. subtripinnata Miq.
  • Melia azedarach var. toosendan (Siebold & Zucc.) Makino
  • Melia azedarach var. umbraculifera G.W.Knox

and 21 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.