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 Label name: Moringa oleifera Lam.
Family: MORINGACEAE Label header: UCONN EEB CONSERVATORY | LIVING PLANT VOUCHERS Verification summary: Label name: Moringa oleifera Lam. Locality information: USA: Connecticut: Tolland County: Mansfield, Storrs: University of Connecticut Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses. 41°48'37"N, 72°15'21"W. Accuracy of georeference / locality: 1 km Collector(s) and number(s): Christopher T. Martine 973 Collected with: Clinton Morse Collection date: 10 Feb 2005 Description: India, southern foothills of the Himalayas, widely cultivated in Old World tropics. Deciduous tree to about 20 feet; leaves sub-pinnate; flowers yellow, upper petiole whitish. Develops a large caudexed base with age. Recent research indicates some compounds in the seeds and fruit of this plant have a purifying effect on water. Other compounds have been shown to have promising antibiotic activity. Accession #: 199700027. Phenology: flowering Use(s): Root is scraped when young and used by the natives as Horseradish as in Europe leaves are used in vegetable curries and in pickles unripe pods are used as a curry vegetable, boiled and sliced like beans flowers and bark are used in native medicine seeds yield valuable Oil of Ben used in artist's paints, salad oil and soap timber suited for pulp for cellophane or rayon Location in CONN: Dry Storage CONN Accession #: 129179 Barcode: CONN00055515 Last edited: TYM 20 FEB 12 |
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