MULBERRY 'Indian' --Morinda citrifolia--

AKA: Noni This is a tree in the coffee family with a native range spanning Southeast Asia and Australasia. Its fruit and edible leaves have been consumed by indigenous peoples as famine food and is used in traditional medicine. Tolerant of saline soils, drought conditions, and secondary soils. The oval-shaped fruit has a pungent odor when ripening and can reach up to 7 inches in size. The fruit is eaten raw or cooked and the seeds can be roasted and eaten. In addition to its use as food and medicine, Morinda bark produces a dye for making batik while the root extract produces a yellowish cloth dye in Hawaii. Fruit has been introduced in various formats, such as capsules, skin lotions and soaps, and juice drinks, and the leaf powder as a supplement in the consumer market. Drought, heat, and salt tolerant.