Neem Tree? I don't think so...

Fletch

Bought this interesting looking tree / plant when I was at the local garden centre today (it was on a table with herbs on one end and a few sickly looking bonsai on the other - dare I call them that). The tag calls it a neem tree but when I looked it up on the web I could not find any pictures that look like this fella.

The leaves on this one are compound (as far as I can tell there are no branches in the pic, just the trunk with compound leaves shooting out from it, obviously very young whatever it is). The pics I did find on the web all look to have sigle ovate leaves, resembling a ficus, not compound. The trunk is deep green with the portion that seems to be hardening off developing some beige striping...

Anyway, I'm at a loss as to what it might be. I'll treat it as a tropical for now unless someone out there recognizes it and can tell me what I actually have.


Come on now you wizards of botanical identification, don't let me down

Regards
Fletch

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nsmar4211

http://www.neemamerica.org/farm-photos-09.html
http://www.neemamerica.org/farm-photos-14.html

Good pic there, looks like your tree......... so it might
be a neem after all

Hey.......at least no critters will bug it

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Fletch

Well what do you know. They certainly do look similar. I looked back at some of the pics I had pulled up earlier and they may also be compound but the leaflets are definitely oval with smooth edges... Maybe there's more than one cultivar?

Thanx for the link.

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Fletch