#8 - Neem Tree / Azadirachta indica

If you are a gardener, then perhaps you have heard of neem oil and neem cakes. While these and other neem products have made headlines for their usefulness only in recent decades, Indians have used neem trees for various purposes and revered them for thousands of years. Now that science has brought this tree to the limelight, it's popular all over the world. So, neem is our tree of the week.