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Botanical name - Melia azadirachata
Description - Melia azadirachta, is a large tree of about 40-50 ft high with a straight trunk, Cylindrical, dark grey coloured with shallow, longitudinal furrows. Simply pinnate leaves, crowned near the ends of the branches. 9-12 leaflets, sub opposite, obliquely lanuolate, serrate and glabrous. White, fragrant flowers in branched glabrous panicles shorter than the leaves. Drupes the shape of an olive, glabrous and 1-seeded
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Uses - Used as wormicide, in diabetes, piles, skin diseases, measels. Leaves are liver stimulant. Oil extracted form the seeds are used to heal the open wonds, as an anti septic, used in abseces etc., Flower is used as food.