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  • COMMON NAME: Indian Lilac, Neem Tree.
  • ARABIC: النيم
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Azadirachta indica A. Juss.
  • SYNONYMS: Melia indica
  • FAMILY: MELIACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
Karim FM and Dakheel AG. Salt-tolerant plants of the United Arab Emirates. 2006. International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, UAE. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1213180-2#synonyms https://www.floraofqatar.com/azadirachta_indica.htm V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Highly salt tolerant up to half seawater salinity, ornamental tree with some medicinal use.
Deciduous tree with hard wood, 3-8 meters high. Branches leafy, form a dense crown, rounded shape. Leaves large, 1-3 pinnate, 20-90cm long, leaflets 3-12, opposite to alternate, ovate-lanceolate, 2-5cm long, serrate, hairy. Flowers in branching axillary panicles. Calyx small, 5-6 lobed. Petals 5-6, free, oblong or obovate, whitish to purple color. Stamens many, united into a cylindrical tube. Style slender, as long as staminal tube. Stigma capitate, 3-6 lobed. Fruit a small globose drupe. Flowering from April to May.
Cultivated. Widely grown in dry, hot and saline conditions.
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