Nuggekai - Drum Stick Tree
Moringa oleifera
Summary
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.
Kannada: Nuggekai, Nugge mara, Guggala, Mochaka mara.
Description:
- Habit and Habitat: It is a small deciduous tree ,fast growing . Terrestrial habitat.
- Distribution: Native to Asia but also naturalised in Africa and tropical America.
- 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). - Propagation: By seeds and stem cutting.
- Importance:
It has nutritional and medicinal value. Fruit is edible. Has economic value. Cultivated through out tropics. - Location: Infront of Chemistry Staffroom.
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