Melia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Melia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/melia/). Accessed 2024-04-19.

Family

Meliaceae

Species in genus

Melia azedarach

Glossary

family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Melia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/melia/). Accessed 2024-04-19.

Melia azedarach flowering in Chelsea St Leonard's terrace London SW3 June 2019. Image MC DE LAUBARÈDE.

A genus of a few species of trees and shrubs, natives of the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. The family Meliaceae, to which the mahoganies belong, is scarcely to be met with outdoors in the British Isles, Cedrela sinensis being the only hardy representative.

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