Morinda coreia - Indian mulberry

❏ Binomial Name : Morinda coreia Buch.-Ham.

❏ Synonym : Morinda tinctoria,Morinda exserta,Morinda pubescens

❏ Family : Rubiaceae

❏ Common Name : Indian mulberry

❏ Tamil Name : Nuna

❏ Hindi Name : Achi

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Morinda coreia Botanical Description

Deciduous trees, to 12 m high, bark pale brown, thick, vertically fissured and irregularly cracked; blaze turmeric yellow. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules interpetiolar, connate, sheathing, bifid at apex; petiole 5-20 mm long, stout, pubescent, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 7.5-25 x 2-8 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, base acute, cuneate or attenuate, apex acute to acuminate, margin entire, pubescent or tomentose, chartaceous; lateral nerves 7-12 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white, in terminal, globose heads; calyx limb truncate; corolla 2 cm long; tube 1 mm long, villous within; lobes 4, oblong, recurved; stamens 4, attached to the throat of corolla; anthers exserted; ovary 1.5 mm, 2-celled or incompletely 4-celled, inferior; style 4 mm; stigma 2 lobed. Fruit a syncarp, 15-18 mm across, globose, pyrenes 4, oblong; seeds not winged. Fl. &Fr.: March-June.

Morinda coreia Medicinal uses

❀ The wood is light and strong, therefore preferred for making parts of the plough.

❀ The bark of the root is used for dyeing items red or yellow

❀ The fruit can be fermented with molasses to make a liquid manure

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