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Moringa hildebrandtii

Moringa hildebrandtii
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Moringaceae (Moring family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Madagascar
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Moringa hildebrandtii, or Hildebrandt's moringa, is a tree species with a massive, water-storing trunk in the family Moringaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it is extinct in the wild, but preserved by indigenous horticulture practices.

The plant originally was thought to grow along the west coast of Madagascar, but ethnobotany data suggest it in fact grew in the island's extreme southwest.

Other Moringa plants

Moringa arborea · Bottle Tree · Horseradishtree · African Moringa · Wild Drumstick Tree · Cabbagetree · Moringas

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Moringa hildebrandtii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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