Moringa oleifera

Moringa oleifera Lam.

flowers and leaves

Order	Brassicales
Family	Moringaceae
Genus	Moringa

2n = 28

Origin : south of Himalaya

cultivated

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Popular names

• English: horseradish tree, drumstick tree, behen tree
• French: mouroungue, ben ailé, raifort en arbre, néverdié
• Spanish: moringa, ben, paraíso
• Portuguese: moringa, moringueiro
• Italian: moringa

• Hindi: saṁjhnā (saonjana)
• Malayalam: moringa, murinna
• Tamil: murungai
• Konkani: maxing

Biology

File:Moringa - മുരിങ്ങയില.JPG leaves|leaves File:Moringa flower 5.jpg|flowers File:Fruits of Moringa oleifera.jpg|green fruits (for the Future) File:Starr 080609-7915 Moringa oleifera.jpg|dry fruits fruits secs File:Starr 070207-4294 Moringa oleifera.jpg|seeds with their broad wing

Classification

Moringa oleifera Lam. (1783)

synonyms:

• Guilandina moringa L. (1753)
• Moringa pterygosperma Gaertn. (1791)

History

File:Moringa oleifera Blanco1.125.jpg Blanco, 1880-1883, Flora de Filipinas

Uses

File:Moringa oleifera flowers ready to be cooked.jpg Flowers ready to be cooked File:Dunt-dalun chin-yei 1760.JPG Burmese soup

Links

• ECHO Technical notes for download: Moringa tree, Moringa recipes and Moringa leaf powder
• FAO: L'arbre qui purifie l'eau
• GRIN
• IPNI
• Mansfeld
• MoringaNews
• Mark Olson's page at Mobot
• Purdue New Crops
• Prota4U
• John Sutherland's page
• Wikipedia
• more photos on Wikimedia Commons