. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. THE HORSE RADISH TREE FAMILY MORINGACE^ Dumont GENUS MORINGA LAMARCK Species Moringa Morioga (Linnaeus) Small Guilandina Moringa Linnaeus. Moringa pterygosperma Gaertner ORINGA, or Horse-radish tree, the type of the genus Moringa, so called on account of the pungent taste and odor of its roots, is a native of India, has long been cultvated in tropical countries, and has escaped from cultivation in Florida and the West Ind
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. THE HORSE RADISH TREE FAMILY MORINGACE^ Dumont GENUS MORINGA LAMARCK Species Moringa Morioga (Linnaeus) Small Guilandina Moringa Linnaeus. Moringa pterygosperma Gaertner ORINGA, or Horse-radish tree, the type of the genus Moringa, so called on account of the pungent taste and odor of its roots, is a native of India, has long been cultvated in tropical countries, and has escaped from cultivation in Florida and the West Indies. The family includes only the genus Moringa, of which 3 species are known, natives of Asia and Africa. It is a small tree, sometimes 7 or 8 me- ters high, with corky bark and alternate pinnately decompound leaves; the very numerous leaflets are thin, opposite, oval to obovate, blunt, dull green, short-stalked, 2 cm. long or less. The showy, irregular fragrant flowers are in large axillary pani- cles; the cup-shaped calyx is S-cleft; there are 5 unequal whitish petals and 5 perfect declined stamens with slender fila- ments, hairy^ toward the base, and i-celled anthers, alternating with about as many sterile stamens (staminodia); the hairy ovary is i-celled, containing many ovules and is tipped by a slender style; it ripens into a long, angled, pointed, drooping pod, dm. long or less, and i to 2 cm. thick, containing numerous winged seeds. The wood is soft, weak, and of little value. The tree is valued for its pods, which are eaten as a vegetable and pickled; Ben oil, much used by watch- makers, is expressed from its Fig. 359. — Horse-radish Tree. 407. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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