Names: Antelaea azadirachta.
English: Neem tree; Indian Lilac; Nature’s Drugstore, Village Pharmacy, Panacea for all diseases; Persian Lilac, White Cedar, Chinaberry, Texas Umbrella, Bead Tree, Lunumidella, Ceylon Cedar.
Names: Malai vembu; Bakain; Dharek; Dhraik; Neem (Hindi, Nepali, Urdu), Nim ((Bengali)), Nimm (Punjabi), Arya Veppu (Malayalam), Azad Dirakht (Persian), Nimba (Sanskrit, Oriya), Limdo (Gujarati language) Kadu-Limba (Marathi), Dongoyaro (in some Nigerian languages), Margosa, Neeb (Arabic), Nimtree, Vepu, Vempu, Vepa (Telugu), Bevu (Kannada), Kodu nimb (Konkani), Kohomba (Sinhala), Vembu (Tamil), Tamar (Burmese); Paraiso (Spanish); Muarubaini (Swahili); Somalia: Geed Yahuud, the Jewish tree, Sacred Tree, Heal All; Ghoda neem (Ghoda meaning horse) in Bengali and Vilayati (foreign).
Content: resins, tetranortriterpenoids; nimbin, nimbinin, nimbidin, azadirachtin.
Use: cosmetics, soap, neem shampoo, balms, creams, Margo soap; insecticide anti mosquito; timber of high quality, resistant to fungi, seeds as beads, for rosaries.
Botany: fast growing tree in drought resistance, well drained sandy soils, coastal.
DD:
Bromium.