In late spring the chinaberry tree is covered with pale purple flowers.
Tips
history
楝 rarely stands alone; it occurs mainly in 苦楝 (chinaberry / bead tree) and 楝树, whose bark and fruit were used in folk medicine. It joins the tree radical 木 with the phonetic 柬.
register
Bound and literary; appears in the tree name and old botanical texts rather than as a free word in everyday speech.
