Fruit · Medicinal

Noni

Morinda citrifolia L.

India to the Pacific

Fun factThe seeds contain air chambers that let them float on the ocean for months, which helped the tree spread naturally across the Pacific.

Noni is a small evergreen tree of the coffee family with large, glossy, opposite leaves and heads of small white flowers that develop into knobbly, yellowish-white fruits. The ripe fruit is soft and gives off a strong, cheese-like smell, which is why it is also called cheese fruit. It is extremely tough, growing from shade to full sun on poor, salty or waterlogged soils, and was carried across the Pacific by Polynesian settlers for its medicinal and dye uses.

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Fruit Medicinal India through Southeast Asia

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FamilyRubiaceae

Spanish nameNoni

Also known asIndian mulberry, Great morinda, Cheese fruit

Native toIndia through Southeast Asia and Malesia to the Pacific islands and northern Australia; now pantropical

Tag	Garden area	Zone	Planted	Status	Sponsored	Note
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