Index / Search / Melia azedarach
§1 Plant
Melia azedarach L.
vernacular Chinaberrytree — species · Meliaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Tree
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Meliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Melia
§2a
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- NAV Navassa Island Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 324 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- Medium
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 17 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 365 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–8
- Root depth
- 60 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Stem
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 50 ft
- Height @ 20 y
- 50 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Dense
- Flower colour
- Purple
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Indeterminate
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Year Round
- Seed ends
- Year Round
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, container
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Fuelwood
- Medium
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 324 counties across 13 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 48 I ▾
- Autauga 01001
- Baldwin 01003
- Barbour 01005
- Bibb 01007
- Bullock 01011
- Butler 01013
- Calhoun 01015
- Chambers 01017
- Chilton 01021
- Clay 01027
- Coffee 01031
- Colbert 01033
- Conecuh 01035
- Coosa 01037
- Covington 01039
- Crenshaw 01041
- Cullman 01043
- Dale 01045
- Dallas 01047
- Elmore 01051
- Escambia 01053
- Etowah 01055
- Fayette 01057
- Franklin 01059
- Geneva 01061
- Greene 01063
- Hale 01065
- Henry 01067
- Houston 01069
- Jackson 01071
- Jefferson 01073
- Lawrence 01079
- Lee 01081
- Lowndes 01085
- Macon 01087
- Marengo 01091
- Mobile 01097
- Monroe 01099
- Montgomery 01101
- Perry 01105
- Pickens 01107
- Pike 01109
- Randolph 01111
- Russell 01113
- Talladega 01121
- Tallapoosa 01123
- Tuscaloosa 01125
- Wilcox 01131
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 40 I ▾
- Arkansas 05001
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Calhoun 05013
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Clay 05021
- Cleburne 05023
- Columbia 05027
- Conway 05029
- Crittenden 05035
- Cross 05037
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Grant 05053
- Greene 05055
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Jefferson 05069
- Johnson 05071
- Lee 05077
- Lincoln 05079
- Little River 05081
- Lonoke 05085
- Miller 05091
- Mississippi 05093
- Ouachita 05103
- Phillips 05107
- Pope 05115
- Pulaski 05119
- Scott 05127
- St. Francis 05123
- Stone 05137
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
- White 05145
- Yell 05149
Florida view state ↗ 39 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Bay 12005
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Columbia 12023
- Escambia 12033
- Flagler 12035
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hernando 12053
- Jackson 12063
- Jefferson 12065
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Liberty 12077
- Madison 12079
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Monroe 12087
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Putnam 12107
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Volusia 12127
- Wakulla 12129
- Walton 12131
- Washington 12133
Georgia view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Atkinson 13003
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Bulloch 13031
- Camden 13039
- Charlton 13049
- Chatham 13051
- Clarke 13059
- Clinch 13065
- Columbia 13073
- Crisp 13081
- Dodge 13091
- Elbert 13105
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Henry 13151
- Houston 13153
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Jefferson 13163
- Lee 13177
- Liberty 13179
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Macon 13193
- Madison 13195
- McDuffie 13189
- McIntosh 13191
- Mitchell 13205
- Morgan 13211
- Oglethorpe 13221
- Randolph 13243
- Richmond 13245
- Spalding 13255
- Sumter 13261
- Tattnall 13267
- Tift 13277
Louisiana view state ↗ 59 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Anson 37007
- Beaufort 37013
- Brunswick 37019
- Chatham 37037
- Cherokee 37039
- Cumberland 37051
- Dare 37055
- Durham 37063
- Forsyth 37067
- Greene 37079
- Halifax 37083
- Harnett 37085
- Hoke 37093
- Hyde 37095
- Johnston 37101
- Lee 37105
- Lenoir 37107
- Martin 37117
- McDowell 37111
- Montgomery 37123
- New Hanover 37129
- Northampton 37131
- Orange 37135
- Pasquotank 37139
- Pitt 37147
- Polk 37149
- Randolph 37151
- Richmond 37153
- Robeson 37155
- Sampson 37163
- Scotland 37165
- Vance 37181
- Wake 37183
- Wayne 37191
- Wilson 37195
South Carolina view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Aiken 45003
- Allendale 45005
- Anderson 45007
- Bamberg 45009
- Barnwell 45011
- Beaufort 45013
- Berkeley 45015
- Calhoun 45017
- Charleston 45019
- Cherokee 45021
- Chester 45023
- Clarendon 45027
- Darlington 45031
- Dillon 45033
- Edgefield 45037
- Fairfield 45039
- Hampton 45049
- Jasper 45053
- Kershaw 45055
- Laurens 45059
- Lee 45061
- Lexington 45063
- Marion 45067
- McCormick 45065
- Newberry 45071
- Richland 45079
- Spartanburg 45083
- Sumter 45085
- Union 45087
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 20 I ▾
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Gloucester 51073
- Greensville 51081
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mecklenburg 51117
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Southampton 51175
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MEAZ ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5914287 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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