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chinaberry tree - tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

azedarach, azederach, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, China tree, chinaberry

genus Melia, Melia - type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash

tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

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The Persian lilac or chinaberry tree: Melia azedarach, pp.

Potential of Melia azedarach L. (Meliaceae) as a host plant for Halyomorpha halys (Stal) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

Chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach) poisoning in dog: a case report.

Intoxicacion accidental por paraiso (Melia azedarach) en bovinos

Chinaberry tree, Daphne, Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia),

Dangerous plants for your dog: for your pet's sake, be careful of the greenery you bring into your house and cultivate in your garden

We had a very large and very old Chinaberry tree in the back yard.

On Austin, Texas

(Under a chinaberry tree in Cotton Plant, Arkansas.

Lord, Make Me a Sheep

Efficacy of Chinaberry tree (Meliaceae) aquous extracts nd certain insecticides against the pea leafminer (Dipetra: Agromyzidae).

The potential uses of Melia azedarach L. as pesticidal and medicinal plant, review

We drove out in the country and found an abandoned house with a very large old chinaberry tree and got as many leafy fronds as we could reach.

Chinaberry tree leaves repel pests because they're toxic

Equally fascinating is the discussion of Gale's friendship with Jessie Redmon Fauset (Gale provided the introduction to Fauset's 1931 novel, The Chinaberry Tree) and her commitment to racial equality through her professional respect for and friendships with other noted Harlem Renaissance writers.

Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship

She also directed me to the only chinaberry tree in town, adjacent to the Shell gas station.

Learning to write in Mississippi

children's books, including Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree,

Patmos

Here is a moment in the development of what were to become, over the course of Welty's career, really extraordinary descriptive gifts: Her hand took the lipstick, and in an instant she was carried away in the air through the spring, and looking down with a half-drowsy smile from a purple cloud she saw from above a chinaberry tree, dark and smooth and neatly leaved, neat as a guinea hen in the dooryard, and there was her home that she had left.

A universal region: the fiction of Eudora Welty

Fauset is one of the most understudied women of the Harlem Renaissance, but she wrote several novels, including There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1929), The Chinaberry Tree (1931), and Comedy: American Style (1933).

Reclaiming a legacy: the dialectic of race, class, and gender in Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West