Moringa oleifera

Scientific Classification

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Capparales
Family: Moringaceae
Genus: Moringa
Species: M.oleifera
Scientific Name: Moringa oleifera Lam.

Common Names:
English: Drum stick.
Hindi: Senjana. Marathi Shevaga

Description:

1. Habit and Habitat: It is a small deciduous tree ,fast growing . Terrestrial habitat.
2. Distribution: Native to Asia but also naturalised in Africa and tropical America.
3. Morphology:
   Leaf: Alternate, petiolate, non-sheathing leaf base, compound, bipinnate, exstipulate.
   Inflorescence: Cymose inflorescence.
   Flower: Asexual, fragnant, surrounded by 5 unequal petals.
   Androceium: 5 fertile stamens, polyandrous, unequal filaments. Anthers in the fertile monothecal stamen.
   Gynoceium: Carpels 3, united in an unilocular superior stiputate usually curved and hairy unilocular ovary, style one, ovules many, biseriate anatropous on parietal placentation.
   Fruit: A Capsule.
   Seeds: 3 winged globular seeds, white papery.
   Flowering Time: April and June (twice a year).
4. Propagation: By seeds and stem cutting.
5. Importance:
   It has nutritional and medicinal value. Fruit is edible. Has economic value. Cultivated through out tropics.
6. Location: