Syringa berrytree
Melia azedarach · Meliaceae · 멀구슬나무
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate, odd 2- to 3-times pinnate compound leaves up to 80 cm long; leaflets are ovate to elliptic, 2 to 5 cm long, with serrate lobes.
- Flowers
- Pale purple flowers bloom in late May in panicles at the tips of new twigs; ten stamens fuse into a tube.
- Fruit
- The drupe is round, 1.5 cm across, ripening yellow from mid-September to October, gradually wrinkling and staying on the tree until the following spring. The fruit contains margosin and tannic acid.
- Bark
- Dark brown bark that splits finely; the branches are thick and spread in all directions.
Where it grows
- Native to
- China, Taiwan, India, Nepal, Malaysia to northern Australia, the Solomon Islands and elsewhere.
- Ecology
- Grows in both sun and shade (intermediate shade tolerance) and likes fertile sandy loam. It has weak cold hardiness but strong tolerance of pollution and salt, and grows fast.