Request Id_19062011DS_SN5

[Dalia Set]

Hi Friends

Found this tree flowering in Howrah, West Bengal  - March 2011.

When enquired, it was told as a AkashNeem tree in Bengali (Millingtonia hortensis)- but I have doubt as the flowers do not match.
Can it be persian lilac (Melia azedarach)? Flowers seem to match but again . not the leaves.

Please help with id.
Thanks
Dalia

[Mayur Nandikar]

Yes u r right this is Melia azedarach L. (Persian Lilac)

--
Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

[H S]

leaves look different from M. azedarach

On 6/21/11, Mayur Nandikar <mayurn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes u r right this is *Melia azedarach *L. (*Persian Lilac*)

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- H.S.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of
stone

[Pinki]

Melia azedarach no doubt. march is the high time for the flowering in
this tree whereas Millingtonia hortensis, if i am not wrong, will
flower somewhere in august September....


Alok

>  AkashNeem_Flowering_1.jpg
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>  AkashNeem_Flowering_2.jpg
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[H S]

Hello,
definately not Millingtonia hortensis (Indian Cork tree)

[Ushadi micromini]

Dear Dalia: this is persian lilac...leaves of which are classically
described as "odd pinnate" ,
so question is was it?

from your pics it seems to be... yes...


and certainly not Millingtonia hortensis... I forget when it flowers
in Bengal..
there is atleast one in the central park , salt lake... Ithink it was
july or august
a few years ago that I had seen it in flowers there, and in July/
august in Hyderabad...

...... Usha di.

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[Dalia Set]

Thanks every body for confirming the id as Persian Lila - Melia azedarach.

Dalia