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Moringa oleifera

Scientific Name
Moringa oleifera
Family Name
Moringaceae
Common Names
Drumstick tree, horse radish tree.
Local Names
Sajna, sajina. (Bangladesh), Sahijan (India), Moringa, kelor (Indonesia),Malunggay (tagalog) (Philippines)
Description
A medium-sized tree up to 10cm tall; branches soft, corky, with deeply fissured bark.Leaves tripinnate, opposite, deciduous. The lower leaflets elliptic and the terminalobovate. Flowers white, fragrant in large panicles. Pods pendulous, green triangular,9-ribbed. Seeds trigonous, the wings angled. (India)
Small tree (3-10 m), flowers yelow, seed contain fatty oil, alkaloid saponin(Indonesia)
Fast-growing, much-branched tree or shrub; roots tuberous with pungent bark; youngshoots purplish or greenish-white; inflorescence an erect to spreading panicle; fragrantflowers; fruit a 3-angled, dagger-shaped, pendant capsule, green at first, later brown.(Philippines)
Uses
Stimulant, carminative, stomachic, diuretic, paralysis, fever, epilepsy, hysteria,rheumatism, abortifacient, liver, spleen, articular (Bangladesh)
Gout, rheumatism, inflammation, giddiness, debility, hysteria, flatulence, scurvy,articular pains, tetanus, paralysis, veneral diseases (India)
Hypertension (Indonesia)
Arthritis, asthma (Philippines)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Cimanggu
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Remarks
Moringa oleifera (GRIN)

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