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MELIACEAE. Current Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Tree for Flowering Plants. MALVALES, EUROSIDS II. Bursera bark. Meliaceae (Mexico). Trichilia. Swietenia - the new world mahogany. Swietenia - the new world mahogany. Guarea - fleshy fruits, indeterminate leaves.
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Current Angiosperm Phylogeny Group Tree for Flowering Plants MALVALES, EUROSIDS II
Meliaceae (Mexico) Trichilia
Guarea - fleshy fruits, indeterminate leaves
NEEM: Azadirachta indica, MELIACEAE terpenoids triterpenoids azadirachtin
azadirachtin General structure of steroids ecdysterone
MELIACEAE • rosid trees • small, pale, radially symmetrical flowers • alternate. compound leaves • no stipules • stamen tube
SAPINDACEAE Blighia
SAPINDACEAE • rosid trees and lianas • small, pale, radially symmetrical flowers • alternate. even-compound leaves • lianas with forked tendrils • no stipules • stamens inside of disk
Sapindaceous creepers and lianas Serjania Cardiospermum
Genus info TOOLBOX text Genus species Genus species Tetrapteris
One group of compounds that has demonstrated significant toxic effects on some pests of modern man have been discovered in the neem tree (Azadirachta indica) (A. Juss.). The most active constituent, azadiractin (AZA), a triterpenoid, has been shown to have properties including feeding and ovipositional deterrence, repellency, growth disruption, reduced fitness, and sterility in a number of species of hemimetabolous and holometabolous insects (Ascher and Meisner 1989; Shmutterer 1990). Research has been focused on controlling agricultural pests as well as medically important arthropods with products derived from neem. Much more at http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en570/papers_1996/panella.html